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  1. www.theatlantic.com › culture › archiveHow Stephen Sondheim Changed Musical Theater - The Atlantic

    Nov 30, 2021 · Starting with Saturday Night, his first professional musical, which he finished writing in 1954, Sondheim’s characters were people on the margins with a fierce longing to be center stage. Their ...

  2. www.latimes.com › stephen-sondheim-appreciationHow Stephen Sondheim changed theater forever - Los Angeles Times

    Nov 27, 2021 · Musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim dead at 91. Nov. 26, 2021. In “Finishing the Hat, ” the first of his magnificent two-volume edition of collected lyrics and commentaries, Sondheim ...

    • Charles Mcnulty
    • Theater Critic
    • charles.mcnulty@latimes.com

  3. www.musicalsmagazine.com › features › articleStephen Sondheim: the man who transformed Musical Theatre

    Aug 8, 2023 · He died having sold precisely one painting during his lifetime. Mercifully, the only list of major 20th-century artists upon which the name Stephen Sondheim does not appear is ‘Unappreciated In His Lifetime’. From the evening on 11 March 1973 when an all-star cast gathered to celebrate his already unique contribution to Musical Theatre in ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Stephen_SondheimStephen Sondheim - Wikipedia

    In 1990, Sondheim, as the Cameron Mackintosh chair in musical theater at Oxford, [198] conducted workshops with promising musical writers including George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, Andrew Peggie, Paul James, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, and Stephen Keeling. The writers founded the Mercury Workshop in 1992, 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).

  5. www.newyorktheatreguide.com › theatre-news › newsA history of Stephen Sondheim musicals on Broadway and beyond

    • Sondheim Shows on Broadway and Off Broadway
    • Sondheim Revues in New York
    • Additional Sondheim Works

    Over a 50-year span, Sondheim tackled a wide range of subjects, from showbiz, storybook tales, star-crossed love, sinister revenge, and much more. He set them to equally complex and diversified music styles, cementing his place as one of Broadway’s greatest writers. Discover a complete guide to all of Sondheim’s shows below.

    See full list on newyorktheatreguide.com

    When a composer writes so many great songs, it’s only natural to put them together thematically. Sondheim’s catalog inspired many Broadway and Off-Broadway revues honoring his unmatched career — learn more about them below.

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    Sondheim also wrote music for a few screen projects, including the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, whose song "The Madame's Song" appeared in Side by Side by Sondheim as “I Never Do Anything Twice.” But perhaps more famous is Evening Primrose, a musical written for TV featuring songs like "Take Me To The World." Visit our fall preview page to lea...

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  6. www.britannica.com › biography › Stephen-SondheimStephen Sondheim | Biography, Musicals, Legacy, & Facts

    Sep 16, 2024 · Stephen Sondheim (born March 22, 1930, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 26, 2021, Roxbury, Connecticut) was an American composer and lyricist whose brilliance in matching words and music in dramatic situations broke new ground for Broadway musical theater. Precocious as a child, Sondheim showed an early musical aptitude among other wide ...

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  8. www.vulture.com › article › stephen-sondheim-here-weHow Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Here We Are’ Musical Was Made

    Aug 28, 2023 · When Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, the composer had been working for years on a new musical, “Here We Are” opening at The Shed, with the playwright David Ives and the director Joe Mantello.