Odd synchronicity:

I was thinking of the theme to Into the Woods earlier because of the line "opportunity is not a lengthy visitor" and then I read the following in the Writer's Almanac for today:

"It's the birthday of the lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, (books by this author) born in New York City (1930). He was twelve years old when he became friends with a boy named Jamie Hammerstein, whose father was the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. Sondheim's parents had recently divorced, and he spent as much time as possible at the Hammersteins' house. He wrote his first musical when he was fifteen."