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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ ˈ s ɒ n d h aɪ m /; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. [1]
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948. Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
Stephen Sondheim: "Now" from A Little Night Music [15] Stephen Sondheim: "The Worst Pies In London" [30] and "A Little Priest" [31] from Sweeney Todd; Stephen Sondheim: "Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George [32] Stephen Sondheim: "Mr. Goldstone, I Love You" from Gypsy [30] Stephen Sondheim: "Your Fault" from Into the Woods [33]
The Lion King: 1997 Elton John Tim Rice Roger Allers, Irene Mecchi: 1998: Nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning six. It has grossed worldwide over $6.2 billion as of 2014. A Little Night Music: 1973 Stephen Sondheim: Sondheim Hugh Wheeler: 1973: Nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning six. Man of La Mancha: 1965 Mitch Leigh: Joe Darion ...
Stephen Sondheim circa 1970. Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most acclaimed works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884–1886).
Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr.. Using the framing device of an all-American, yet sinister, carnival game, the semi-revue portrays a group of historical figures who attempted (successfully or not) to assassinate Presidents of the United States, and explores what their presence in ...
Slapstick was also emphasized, "done in the spirit of what Sondheim has written". [80] Lapine and Sondheim supported this new vision, [81] [82] and Sondheim gave his approval for the cast before he died. [83] Sondheim also discussed the production with the directors over Zoom. Allegedly he liked what he saw so much that he fell off his chair ...