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Stephen Sondheim

Shows · Stephen Sondheim

ComposerLyricist 1930–2021

The defining voice of the American musical theatre, known for intellectually rigorous and emotionally complex works.

Also credited on33 works

West Side Story
Gypsy
Company
Follies
A Little Night Music
Pacific Overtures
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Merrily We Roll Along
Sunday in the Park with George
Into the Woods
Assassins (2004 Revival)
Passion
Candide
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Do I Hear A Waltz?
Gypsy (1974 Revival)
A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival)
Into the Woods (2002 Revival)
Gypsy (2003 Revival)
Sweeney Todd (2005 Revival)
Company (2006 Revival)
Gypsy (2008 Revival)
A Little Night Music (2009 Revival)
West Side Story (2020 Revival)
Company (2021 Revival)
Into the Woods (2022 Revival)
Merrily We Roll Along (2023 Revival)
Sweeney Todd (2023 Revival)
Gypsy (2024 Revival)
Anyone Can Whistle
The Frogs
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
Sunday in the Park with George

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • [244] Stephen Sondheim , Look, I Made a Hat – Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) , Virgin Nooks, London, 2011, p.309ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • “Nowadays the terrible thing is that young people don’t get a chance to be heard,” said Stephen Sondheim in 1973. “And therefore they get discouraged and say, ‘Screw it,’ and they start writing stuff for movies, or they try to start a rock group. It’s awful. A terrible shame – nobody gets a chance to learn what he’s doing.” [526] Things h…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Sue Blane was also nominated for the Best Costume Design award, but for her work on Richard Jones’ original London production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Wood s at the Phoenix Theatre.ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
  • Here’s a case in point: in 2002, when I was performing in the Stephen Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, I invited my whole family to fly out and see Company , featuring yours truly as Bobby, the part of a musical lifetime. During the run, I was living in a two-bedroom suite in an extended-stay hotel on the edge…ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • In 2000, Ruthie and I both starred in Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together, along with Carol Burnett – the queen of physical comedy and a brilliant performer. Carol and I had a ritual before going on stage where we’d hug each other and then say we’d be ‘back in bidness’, using an odd pseudo-southern American accent. Carol would then sta…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • For those of us in musical theatre, the pinnacle of the game is to perform in a Stephen Sondheim show, especially one in which Stephen himself is directly involved. I’ve done two Sondheim productions, Putting It Together (first in Los Angeles in 1998, and then at the Barrymore Theater on Broadway in 2000) and Company (at the Kennedy Cente…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt

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