Solving Sondheim with Barry Joseph
How Was Your Week? with Julie Klausner
Forever Dog
4.6 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Julie talks with author and game designer Barry Joseph about Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend. They discuss Sondheim’s little-known life as a puzzle maker, his legendary game nights, and how his love of play shaped everything from The Last of Sheila to Sunday in the Park with George.
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| 0:00.0 | Forever |
| 0:02.0 | Dog |
| 0:04.0 | Dog |
| 0:05.0 | The |
| 0:06.0 | To never turn |
| 0:11.0 | to be |
| 0:12.0 | a music |
| 0:13.0 | and Hey, everybody. You're going to be. Hey, everybody. It's Julie Klausner back for another episode of How Is Your Week? |
| 0:40.5 | Interview Edition. This week we have a charming, fascinating fellow Barry Joseph. He wrote a book called |
| 0:50.0 | Matching Minds with Sonheim, the Puzz puzzles and games of the Broadway legend. |
| 0:55.7 | I am so excited to have Barry on. |
| 0:57.7 | He's a really fascinating guy, |
| 1:00.5 | and this book is something else. |
| 1:03.5 | It is so dense and so interesting |
| 1:07.1 | and such a different way to think about Stephen Sondheim. |
| 1:11.1 | If you are even a casual fan of puzzles and games, |
| 1:15.9 | I think you'll really like it. |
| 1:17.0 | If you're a casual or intense fan of Steven Sondheim, |
| 1:21.3 | I think it's a must have. |
| 1:23.4 | And then I also just wanted to recommend, |
| 1:26.9 | if you haven't seen it yet, The Last of Sheila, which Sondheim wrote with Anthony Perkins is one of my favorite movies. |
| 1:35.4 | And I know I've talked about it on here before. |
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