Sondheim

American  

[sond-hahym] / ˈsɒnd haɪm /

noun

1. Stephen (Joshua), 1930–2021, U.S. composer and lyricist.

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Sondheim British  

/ ˈsɒndhaɪm /

noun

1. 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)

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Example Sentences

Instead, Buckley pursued her own trajectory in London's theatre landscape, taking a job in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory theatre.

From BBC

Coming to you from the opposite end of the movie musical spectrum from where “Wicked” perches is Maria Friedman’s compact, propulsive film of her acclaimed revival staging of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along.”

From Los Angeles Times

Here Gershwin set to music Heyward’s colloquial poetry—lines that Stephen Sondheim called among “the best lyrics written, I think, for the musical stage.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“My dear friend Stephen Sondheim wrote this line, which is, ‘Musicals are popular.

From Los Angeles Times

Stephen Sondheim was so good at crosswords that he considered it cheating to use a pencil—or a pen.

From The Wall Street Journal