Stephen Sondheim
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- DocumentarySix by Sondheim
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- CrimeWest Side Story
- ComedyInto the Woods
- MusicSunday In the Park With George
- MusicSunday In the Park With George
- ComedyInto the Woods
- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- ComedyInto the Woods
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- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- FantasyEvening Primrose
- ComedyInto the Woods
- ComedyGypsy
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- ComedyInto the Woods
- ComedySunday in the Park with George
- ComedySunday in the Park with George
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- ComedyInto the Woods
- ComedySunday in the Park with George
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- ComedySunday in the Park with George
- CrimeThe Last of Sheila
- ComedyGypsy
- ComedyA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- ComedyA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- ComedyA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- ComedyA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- CrimeWest Side Story
- CrimeWest Side Story
- CrimeWest Side Story
- CrimeWest Side Story
- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- ComedyCamp
- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- AdventureInto the Woods
- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- AdventureInto the Woods
- DramaSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- AdventureInto the Woods
- AdventureInto the Woods
- DramaReds
- ActionDick Tracy
- MusicTake Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
- DocumentaryOriginal Cast Album: Company
- ComedyInto the Woods
- ComedyInto the Woods
- MusicMostly Sondheim
- DramaSondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
- DramaSondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
- MusicPutting It Together
- DramaPassion
- MusicPacific Overtures
- DocumentarySunday in the Park with...Stephen
- DocumentaryJudy Collins: A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim
- DocumentaryKeeping Company with Sondheim
- DramaNational Theatre Live: Follies
- DocumentaryThe Stories of West Side Story
- MusicSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- CrimeSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
- ComedyInto the Woods
- MusicPassion (Live from Lincoln Center)
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- MusicPutting It Together
- DocumentaryFollies: In Concert
- DocumentaryFollies: In Concert
- DramaPassion
- MusicNew York City Opera: A Little Night Music
- MusicNew York City Opera: A Little Night Music
- movieSimply Sondheim
- MusicPutting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
- DocumentaryThe Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
- DocumentaryHarold Prince: The Director's Life
- DocumentaryInto the Woods: A Conversationpiece
- DocumentaryAssassins: A Conversationpiece
- DocumentarySunday in the Park with...Stephen
- DocumentaryThe Last of Sheila Featurette
- DramaNational Theatre Live: Follies
- DocumentaryWest Side Stories: The Making of a Classic
- MusicSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- MusicMerrily We Roll Along
- MusicMerrily We Roll Along
- ComedyCompany
- ComedyCompany
- CrimeSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
- DocumentarySweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
- DocumentarySweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
- MusicPutting It Together
- DocumentaryFollies: In Concert
- DocumentaryFollies: In Concert
- ComedyCompany
- MusicPacific Overtures
- MusicJonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
- DramaNational Theatre Live: Follies
- MusicMerrily We Roll Along
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Stephen Sondheim
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Among the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, Sondheim was praised for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication". His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience" with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life.
Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known 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), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
Sondheim's accolades include eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has a theater named for him both on Broadway and in the West End of London. Sondheim wrote film music, contributing "Goodbye for Now" for Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). He wrote five songs for 1990's Dick Tracy, including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", sung in the film by Madonna, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Film adaptations of Sondheim's work include West Side Story (1961), Gypsy (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), A Little Night Music (1977), Gypsy (1993), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into the Woods (2014), West Side Story (2021), and Merrily We Roll Along (TBD).
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- New York City, New York, USA
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