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all over the world are celebrating it with tributes to him--Donna Murphy
is one of Broadway's leading ladies appearing in a revival of his "Anyone Can Whistle" and here sings one of his famous songs from his hit show "Follies"
Sondheim's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzbDUvOD7XI
"Anyone Can Whistle" and here sings one of his big hits from
his musical "Follies".;">Birth name
22, 1930
New
York City
theatre
lyricist
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American
composer
and lyricist for stage and film. He
is the winner of an Academy
Award, multiple Tony
Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special
Tony
Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre,[1] multiple Grammy Awards,
and a Pulitzer Prize.
He has been described as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in
the
American musical theatre."[2] His most famous
scores include (as composer/lyricist) A
Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company,
Follies,
A Little Night
Music, Sweeney
Todd, Sunday
in the Park with
George, Into
the Woods, and Assassins,
as well as the lyrics for
West
Side Story and Gypsy.
He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
Major works
Unless otherwise noted, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
- Saturday
Night (1954, though
unproduced until 1997) (book by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G.
Epstein) - West
Side Story (1957) (music by
Leonard
Bernstein; book by Arthur Laurents;
directed by Jerome Robbins) - Gypsy (1959) (music by Jule Styne; book by Arthur Laurents;
directed by Jerome
Robbins) - A
Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) (book by Burt
Shevelove and Larry Gelbart;
directed by
George Abbott) - Anyone Can
Whistle (1964) (book by Arthur Laurents;
directed by Arthur Laurents) - Do I Hear
a Waltz? (1965) (music by Richard Rodgers;
book by Arthur Laurents;
directed by John
Dexter) - Company (1970) (book by George Furth;
directed by Hal
Prince) - Follies (1971) (book
by James Goldman;
directed by
Hal
Prince) - A
Little Night Music (1973) (book by Hugh Wheeler;
directed by Hal Prince) - Pacific
Overtures (1976) (book by John Weidman;
directed by Hal Prince) - Sweeney
Todd (1979) (book by Hugh
Wheeler; directed by Hal Prince) - Merrily
We Roll Along (1981) (book by George
Furth; directed by Hal Prince) - Sunday
in the Park with
George (1984) (book by James Lapine;
directed by James Lapine) - Into the
Woods (1987) (book by James Lapine;
directed by James Lapine) - Assassins (1990) (book by John Weidman;
directed by Jerry Zaks) - Passion (1994) (book by James Lapine;
directed by James Lapine) - Bounce (2003) (book by John Weidman;
directed by Hal Prince);
retitled Road Show - The
Frogs - a musical version of Aristophanes'
comedy with book by Burt Shevelove (1974).
Second version (2004) with revised book by Nathan Lane,
contains seven new songs. First
performed in the Yale
University swimming pool. - Road
Show (2008) (book by John Weidman;
directed by John Doyle);
(formerly titled Bounce)
Side By
Side By Sondheim (1976),
Marry
Me A Little (1980), You're
Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983) Putting It
Together (1993), and Sondheim on
Sondheim (2010) are anthologies or revues of Sondheim's work as
composer
and lyricist, featuring both performed songs and songs cut from
productions.