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how the performance came about. It started with a dinner the actors had had with Sondheim last year. “The three of us took Steve out to dinner at an Italian restaurant and we had a fantastic evening,” she told the paper. “When he turned 90 on the day, I wrote him and I said, ‘We’ve really got to have another dinner like that,’ and he said the only way to do it is virtually.”
At first, the trio, each of whom would be recording their own parts in the social-distancing space of their own homes, weren't sure how they were going to pull it off. “We all agreed we weren’t going to try and be glamorous divas in front of our cellphones,” Baranski said. “I said why don’t we just either have baseball caps and sweats on. Then we decided on a bathrobe — like ladies drinking at home, either during the day or at the end of the day.
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