Packet 5: Bonus 6

Answer the following about some of Stephen Sondheim’s most praised rhymes, for 10 points each.
[10e] Mrs. Lovett jokes about selling “shepherd’s pie peppered / with actual shepherd / on top” in this musical titled for a murderous barber.
ANSWER: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[10m] Madam Armfeldt, who rhymes “raisins” and “liaisons,” has her last name rhymed with “charm felt” in this Sondheim musical based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night.
ANSWER: A Little Night Music
[10h] Sondheim’s New Yorker and New York Times obituaries cited this rhyme from the song “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” in which an adjective describing “a person’s personality” is rhymed with a three-word phrase describing a hard action. Name both.
ANSWER: when a person’s personality is personable AND it’s harder than a matador coercin’ a bull
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Main Site2026-04-172314.35100%39%4%