Sondheim

[ sond-hahym ]

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Sondheim

/ ˈsɒndhaɪm /

SondheimStephen (Joshua)1930MUSMUSIC: songwriter Stephen ( Joshua ). born 1930, US songwriter. He wrote the lyrics for West Side Story (1957), the score for Company (1971), and both for A Little Night Music (1973), Into the Woods (1987), and Passion (1994)

As was the case with Sondheim’s musicals, “Company” didn’t have a conventional plot, happy ending, or tidy resolution.

The day before he passed away, Sondheim celebrated Thanksgiving with friends, Pappas told the Times.

Over the last thirty years, the Tony Award-winning Arlington theater has produced more of Sondheim’s work than any other theater in the country.

Signature Theatre is so Sondheim-proficient it can do his work with its doors closed.

I made sure to have James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim involved throughout the whole process.

What did he write to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to Boris Pasternak, to Stephen Sondheim, to Aaron Copland?

Sondheim began by asking a friend about marriage and taking notes, “exactly as if it were a lecture,” he said.

The scene begins chaotically, as Sondheim interrupts the recording and tells Dean Jones to try again.

The number comes last in the documentary, marking the apotheosis of Sondheim.

It was not just to me that you go to Sondheim in this so surprising manner, without informing me.

Kastner sneered at him and nudged Sondheim, who immediately sat up in bed and levelled an unwashed hand at Skidder.

“That mutt Sondheim looks like a bad one to me, and the other guy––Kastner,” he observed gloomily.

The other matter which fitfully preoccupied him was his unpleasant and unintentional interview with Sondheim.

Then Puma looked up, puffing his cigar, and Sondheim stepped forward from the group and shook his finger in his face.

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