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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930
- November 26, 2021) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than
a half-century of contributions to musical theater. Sondheim has received an
Academy Award, eight
Tony
Awards (more than any other composer,[1]
including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight
Grammy Awards, a
Pulitzer Prize, a
Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015
Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by
Frank
Rich of
The New York Times as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist
in the American musical theater."[2]
His best-known works as composer and lyricist include
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,
Company,
Follies,
A Little Night Music,
Pacific Overtures,
Sweeney Todd,
Merrily We Roll Along,
Sunday in the Park with George,
Into the Woods,
Assassins, and
Passion. He also wrote the lyrics for
West Side Story and
Gypsy.
Sondheim has written film music, contributing "Goodbye for Now" for Warren
Beatty's 1981
Reds.
He wrote five songs for 1990's
Dick Tracy, including "Sooner
or Later (I Always Get My Man)" by
Madonna, which won the
Academy Award for Best Song.
Sondheim was president of the
Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981. To celebrate his 80th birthday, the
former Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the
Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, and the
BBC Proms
held a concert in his honor.
Cameron Mackintosh has called Sondheim "possibly the greatest lyricist
ever."[3]
He has lived in a Turtle Bay, Manhattan brownstone since writing Gypsy
in 1959. Ten years later, while he was playing music he heard a knock on the
door. His neighbor,
Katharine Hepburn,
was in "bare feet – this angry, red-faced lady" and told him "You have been
keeping me awake all night!" (she was practicing for her musical debut in
Coco). When Sondheim asked why she had not asked him to play for her, she
said she lost his phone number. According to Sondheim, "My guess is that she
wanted to stand there in her bare feet, suffering for her art".[35]
West Side Story creative team From left to right: Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Arthur Laurents (book), Hal Prince (producer), Robert E. Griffith (producer), Leonard Bernstein (music), and Jerome Robbins (director).
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Sondheim has been described as introverted and solitary. In an interview
with Frank Rich, he said, "The outsider feeling—somebody who people want to
both kiss and kill—occurred quite early in my life".[7]
The composer is in a relationship with Jeff Romley, and lived with dramatist
Peter Jones for eight years (until 1999).[8][9]
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