
A new Broadway musical,
Sondheim on Sondheim, celebrates the life and career of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim ’46. The show includes a song that Stephen wrote as a George School student for
By George, a student-written musical. Entitled “I’ll Meet You at the Donut,” the song is about a leather-upholstered circular seat that once surrounded a pillar in George School’s Main building. In the book
George School: The History of a Quaker Community, the late Kingdon W. Swayne ’37 describes the donut as a place where boys and girls would meet when they were growing serious about each other. Such meetings were often arranged via a Kindness of Bearer note, or “KOB,” a specially folded letter delivered by a third party.
Sondheim on Sondheim, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, stars Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, and Tom Wopat.
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