On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

1998年6月8日在黎西恩剧院举行了一场晚会，这是一场众星云集的音乐剧表演，台下观赏晚会的都是各界的名流，就连英女王夫妇也亲自莅临，这个晚会一方面是为英国国立盲人学院和剧场界集慈善基金，另一方面则藉此向音乐剧制作人柯迈隆．麦金塔过去三十年来在剧场界的努力致敬，参与表演都是英美舞台界的巨星，如Julie Andrews、Jonathan Rryce、Bernadette Peters、Lea Salonga、Colm Wilkinson、Judi Dench、Andrew Lloyd Webber、Stephen Sondheim等两百位表演者． 　　这场举世无双的晚会集合了二十世纪最受欢迎的音乐剧，像是"悲惨世界"(LES MISERABLES)、"猫"(CATS)、"西贡小姐"(MISS SAIGON)、"孤雏泪"(OLIVER!)、"窈窕淑女"(MY FAIR LADY)、"俄克拉马"(OLLAHOMA!)、"歌剧魅影"(THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA)等，剧匠魅影无疑是史上最精彩的音乐剧飨宴。

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.

A short documentary released as pre-publicity for the 1973 murder mystery, The Last of Sheila.

A general making-of piece featuring principal members of the cast and crew. A brief history of the demon barber is provided, as well as the actors' preparation for their singing roles and glimpses of the set design and general production.