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Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. He received numerous accolades, including eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards and five Olivier Awards. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1982 and awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 199…
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Born 22 March 1930 · Died 26 November 2021 · Q153579
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s orchestration plays an especially important role in lending the music a richness of texture and bringing out its sweeping melodic lines. The sets (by Adrianne Lobel) and lighting (by Beverly Emmons) are warm and glowy and fervent, reminiscent of the colors of Italian frescoes and evocative of the story
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“s orchestration plays an especially important role in lending the music a richness of texture and bringing out its sweeping melodic lines. The sets (by Adrianne Lobel) and lighting (by Beverly Emmons) are warm and glowy and fervent, reminiscent of the colors of Italian frescoes and evocative of the story”
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“because my mother was a genuinely monstrous woman, and my father, whom I liked a lot, left me in the dragon”
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“and after a lot of pain -- just the way Giorgio has to struggle a long time.”
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“I think you have to be ready for things.”
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“s view of the Rodgers / Hammerstein team at work on musicals such as”
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“but as he started to work on it, he fell in love with it too. That”
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“Stravinsky is supposed to have asked,”
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“but remember this has been the most popular play in England for 150 years and there”
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“I can never be as interested in pop music as pop music fans are, because to me music is about harmony, and in most pop music, the harmony is not interesting because that”
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“s, his film-buff expertise propelled him through the contestant tryouts for”
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“I want things to be the way they were because that staves off mortality. So I feel threatened by change.”
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“I feel threatened by change.”
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“s Blanche DuBois in the last scene of”
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“He was carried in like a sack of potatoes by a burly manservant. But he couldn”
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“These are all adjectives that came to haunt me in my own, as we say, career: pretentious and incoherent and unfeeling and whatever.”
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“We were able to enjoy the so-called fruits of our labors in a field that we genuinely loved. We”
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“is one thing that does depress me a lot because it is such a large part of my life. You”
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“a large capacity for alcohol,”
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“We’ve been working on it for a few months and are well into it.”
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“The outsider feeling—somebody who people want to both kiss and kill—occurred quite early in my life”
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“m interested in the theater because I”
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“Movies are photographs; the stage is larger than life.”
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“ve been around the block so many times that I tend to be ahead of the chordal structure of most music... in the musical theater... So when it surprises, it really surprises... Sometimes, as in a score like Floyd Collins, which I think is a great score, I want to study the music... I really want to see how he did it. It”
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“I was ashamed of the whole project. It was arch and didactic in the worst way.”
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“someone stuffed a handkerchief in my mouth because it would have been nice to get that extra percentage”
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“I just wanted to study composition, theory, and harmony without the attendant musicology that comes in graduate school. But I knew I wanted to write for the theater, so I wanted someone who did not disdain theater music.”
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“develop a single motif through tiny variations into a long and never boring line and his maximum development of the minimum of material”
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“I am his maverick, his one student who went into the popular arts with all his serious artillery”
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“In that afternoon I learned more about songwriting and the musical theater than most people learn in a lifetime.”
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MDZ Online: El musical más oscuro de Stephen Sondheim llega a Buenos Aires: cuándo y dónde ver Sweeney Todd
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The Line of Best Fit: Watch Truthpaste cover Stephen Sondheim live in session for Best Fit
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The Guardian: Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master
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2025· 3 entries
Forbes: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’: Don’t Miss This Broadway Experience
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BroadwayWorld: Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends 2025
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Released album “Gypsy”.
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2024· 4 entries
Deadline.com: ‘Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends’ Starring Bernadette Peters And Lea Salonga Rounds Out Broadway Cast With Beth Leavel, Gavin Lee, Ryan McCartan & Many More
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New York Post: Stephen Sondheim’s Connecticut home sells for its full $3.25M asking price
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NPR: Stephen Sondheim is cool now
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Merrily won Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Groff), Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical (Radcliffe), and Best Orchestration
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2023· 6 entries
Released album “Merrily We Roll Along (2023 Broadway Cast Recording)”.
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New York Daily News: THEATER REVIEW: Stephen Sondheim’s beautiful last musical ‘Here We Are’ shows he died at top of his game
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With a planned closing on January 6, 2024
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Released album “The Worst Pies in London (2023 Broadway cast recording)”.
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Yahoo: Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical ‘Here We Are’ to Premiere Off-Broadway in Fall
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Released album “Here We Are: Original Cast Recording (Soundtrack)”.
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2022· 5 entries
Released album “Sondheim Unplugged {The NYC Sessions}, Volume Three”.
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Released album “Into the Woods: 2022 Broadway Cast Recording”.
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Released album “Sondheim Unplugged {The NYC Sessions}, Volume Two”.
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Released album “Assassins (2022 off-Broadway cast)”.
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Cameron Mackintosh presented Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, a two-hour concert tribute to the late Sondheim
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Sondheim Unplugged {The NYC Sessions), Volume One”.
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Died 2021-11-26.
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Sondheim attended revivals of two of his musicals: the opening night of Assassins at the Classic Stage Company on November 14, and the first post-shutdown preview of Company at the Jacobs Theatre on November 15
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2020· 1 entry
Sondheim's 90th birthday, was delayed
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2019· 4 entries
Released album “Company: A Musical Comedy: 2018 London Cast Recording”.
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It was observed that three major films of that year prominently featured Sondheim songs: Joker (Wall Street businessmen sing "Send In the Clowns" on the subway), Marriage Story (Adam Driver sings "Being Alive"; Scarlett
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And is planned to continue for the next two decades to allow the actors to age in real time
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Released album “Follies: 2018 National Theatre Cast Recording”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Sunday in the Park With George”.
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016).
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With music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and book by Danny Rubin (screenwriter of the film) with Sondheim's blessing
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Released album “The Essential Stephen Sondheim”.
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2015· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2015).
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Released album “Into the Woods: Instrumental Songs Version”.
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2013· 5 entries
Released album “Marry Me a Little”.
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Released album “Passion”.
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That he had not been in love before he turned 60, when he entered into a roughly eight-year relationship with dramatist Peter Jones
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Sondheim was awarded The Edward MacDowell Medal by The MacDowell Colony for outstanding contributions to American culture In November 2015, Sondheim was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
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Lapine directed the documentary Six by Sondheim, which he executive produced with Frank Rich
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “The American Trumpet”.
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Released album “Merrily We Roll Along: 2012 New York Cast Recording”.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2012).
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Released album “Sweeney Todd”.
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Hal Prince in 2013, Jonathan Tunick in 2014, and James Lapine in 2015
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2011· 2 entries
Jazz: Stephen Sondheim
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Sondheim joined former Salt Lake Tribune theater critic Nancy Melich before an audience of 1,200 at Kingsbury Hall
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Sondheim on Sondheim”.
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The Daily Telegraph wrote that Sondheim was "almost certainly" the only living composer with a quarterly journal published in his name; The Sondheim Review, founded in 1994, chronicled and promoted his work
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “Road Show”.
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In which he discussed many of his songs and shows: "On the perennial struggles of Broadway: 'I don't see any solution for Broadway's problems except subsidized theatre, as in most civilized countries of the world
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In a production starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Evening Primrose”.
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Released album “The Story So Far...”.
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A Salon with Stephen Sondheim (which sold out in three minutes) was hosted by the Academy for New Musical Theatre in Hollywood
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (2007).
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“nibbling at a couple of things with John Weidman and James Lapine”
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “West Side Story”.
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Released album “SymphonySpace Presents Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim”.
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2005· 4 entries
Released album “Sondheim Sings, Vol. II: 1946-60”.
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Released album “Sondheim Sings, Vol. I: 1962-72”.
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Released album “Pacific Overtures”.
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Released album “The Frogs”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Bounce”.
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“Assassins has only one moment I”
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“Would you ever be interested in writing a stage musical with an old traditionalist, namely me?”
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2003· 3 entries
Sondheim was invited to serve as guest curator for the Telluride Film Festival
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Sondheim and his assistant, Steve Clar, hired Jones as an archivist
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The show premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Sweeney Todd in Concert”.
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Released album “Send In the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “The Frogs / Evening Primrose”.
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2000· 5 entries
Released album “Sweeney Todd: Live at the New York Philharmonic”.
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Released album “The Stephen Sondheim Album”.
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Released album “Saturday Night”.
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2000).
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (1999).
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Follies: The Complete Recording”.
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Released album “Saturday Night - Original London Cast Recording”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Sondheim at the Movies: Songs From the Screen”.
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Released album “Sondheim: A Celebration”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “The Songs of West Side Story”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall”.
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2006 and 2020/2021 (the last revival began previews in March 2020, but shut down before resuming in November 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; in this revival, the main character was a woman, Bobbie, portrayed b
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Merrily We Roll Along: The New Cast Recording”.
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Passion (1994).
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Released album “Merrily We Roll Along”.
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1993· 7 entries
Released album “Putting It Together”.
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Released album “Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall”.
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To provide information about his work, with its Sondheim – the Magazine provided to its membership
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Released album “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”.
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“to make a musical of Groundhog Day would be to gild the lily. It cannot be improved.”
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When the music division invited Sondheim to the library to "knock his socks off"
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Released album “Company: A Musical Comedy”.
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1992· 3 entries
Which merged with the New Musicals Alliance to become MMD (a UK-based organization to develop new musical theater, of which Sondheim was a patron)
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Penning the song "Water Under the Bridge"
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Sondheim did not attend her funeral
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Assassins”.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man) (1991).
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Released album “Into the Woods”.
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Sondheim worked with Terrence McNally on a musical, All Together Now
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “Side by Side by Sondheim”.
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Sondheim, as the Cameron Mackintosh chair in musical theater at Oxford, conducted workshops with promising musical writers including George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, Andrew Peggie, Paul James, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, and Stephe
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Released album “Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute”.
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When Jones, an aspiring composer, wrote him a letter
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1989· 1 entry
Cameron Mackintosh had a Contemporary Theatre Chair endowed at the University of Oxford and invited Sondheim to be the first in a series of artist-in-residence professors
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Into the Woods (1988).
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Released album “Pacific Overtures (Original London Cast) [Complete Recording]”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Follies (Original London Cast)”.
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Released album “A Broadway Extravaganza!”.
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Released album “Pacific Overtures (Highlights from the 1987 English National Opera Cast)”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Follies in Concert / Stavisky”.
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George (1985).
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Released album “A Collector's Sondheim”.
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Released album “Sondheim”.
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1984· 2 entries
“Sunday in the Park With George”
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Released album “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “A Stephen Sondheim Evening”.
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1982· 1 entry
And awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015
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1981· 1 entry
To introduce young people to writing for the theater, and was the organization's executive vice-president
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “A Little Night Music”.
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1977· 1 entry
“so Barr and Woodward have been very patient for five years.”
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1975· 1 entry
Perkins said he and Sondheim were working on another script, The Chorus Girl Murder Case: "It's a sort of stew based on all those Bob Hope wartime comedies, plus a little Lady of Burlesque and a little Orson Welles magic
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Edgar Awards (1974).
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Released album “Stavisky”.
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1973· 4 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for A Little Night Music (1973).
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And ran for 601 performances after 12 previews
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“You never can tell what will. Often, what appeals to Hal will not appeal to me, and vice versa. Usually what happens is that Hal drags me into his vision. You commit yourself to something and then after a while, if it has any interest at all, you fall in love with it.”
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Was elected as the Guild's 16th president, serving until 1981
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Follies (1972).
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1971· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Company (1971).
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At the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 522 performances after 12 previews
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Released album “Follies”.
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1970· 3 entries
At the Alvin Theatre, running for 705 performances after seven previews, and won Tony Awards for Best Music, Best Lyrics, and Best Musical
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Released album “Company”.
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Began a collaboration with director Harold Prince resulting in a body of work that is considered one of the high water marks of musical theater history, with critic Howard Kissel writing that the duo had set "Broadway
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1969· 1 entry
But after Jerome Robbins left the project, it was not produced
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1966· 1 entry
Sondheim semi-anonymously provided lyrics for "The Boy From
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Anyone Can Whistle”.
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Musical for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
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1959· 1 entry
Laurents and Robbins approached Sondheim for a musical version of Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir after Irving Berlin and Cole Porter turned it down
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1954· 2 entries
“t performed for 40 years. There”
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“That describes Oscar better than anything I could say.”
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at Williams College (1950).
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1930· 2 entries
Born 1930-03-22.
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Into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Etta Janet ("Foxy"; née Fox; 1897–1992) and Herbert Sondheim (1895–1966)
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