He has also directed productions of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Stephen Sondheim's Company ( which had the first ever African American " Bobby "), Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and his farewell duo of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In 2011, LuPone played the role of Joanne in a four-night limited engagement concert production of Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company at the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Sondheim expert Paul Gemignani.

Gallagher graduated from Tufts University, where he had been active in theater, appearing in such shows as Stephen Sondheim's Company and singing with the all-male a cappella group the Beelzebubs.

After achieving success in film and television, Jones was set to return to Broadway as the star of Stephen Sondheim's new musical Company.

* Bobby, in Stephen Sondheim's Musical, Company

In 1971, he was nominated for a Tony for best featured actor in a musical as Harry in Stephen Sondheim's Company.

She is known for her performance of " The Ladies Who Lunch " in Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company, her 2001 one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother Colleen on NBC's 30 Rock.

She played " Jenny " in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Company in 1995.

Bennett showcased McKechnie again in Stephen Sondheim's Company ( 1970 ), where she danced Tick-Tock.

Lopez finally achieved critical and popular success as a replacement in two shows, Stephen Sondheim's Company ( 1970 ), followed by the 1972 hit Pippin in 1974 ( taking over the role of Fastrada from original performer Leland Palmer ).

His next big break came as a replacement for Dean Jones as the lead in Stephen Sondheim's Company ( 1970 ).

In his review of Sondheim's Follies, he wrote " ' Follies ' " is intermissionless and exhausting, an extravaganza that becomes tedious for two simple reasons: Its extravagances have nothing to do with its pebble of a plot ; and the plot, which could be wrapped up in approximately two songs, dawdles through 22 before it declares itself done ... Mr. Sondheim may be too much a man of the seventies, too present-tense sophisticated ... The effort to bind it up inhibits the crackling, open-ended, restlessly varied surges of sound he devised with such distinction for " Company '.

Among Mendes ' productions were John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Stephen Sondheim's Company, Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and his farewell duo of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The first was Jerome Kern's Show Boat ( in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company ) in 1989, and productions of Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd followed in 1998.

At the same time, shows like Stephen Sondheim's Company began to deconstruct the musical form as it has been practiced through the mid-century, moving away from traditional plot and realistic external settings to explore the central character's inner state ; his Follies relied on pastiches of the Ziegfeld Follies-styled revue ; his Pacific Overtures used Japanese kabuki theatrical practices ; and Merrily We Roll Along told its story backwards.

She also originated the role of Amy in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Company, in which she introduced the challenging, fast-paced patter song " Getting Married Today.

In 1996, Gish played the role of Joanne in Stephen Sondheim's Company at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Sam Mendes.

Particularly good examples include " Tchaikovsky ( and Other Russians )" in Weill ’ s Lady in the Dark and " Getting Married Today " in Stephen Sondheim's Company.

* Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd

He originated the role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim's Company.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

Sondheim's big break came when he wrote the lyrics to West Side Story, lyricizing Leonard Bernstein's music and Arthur Laurents's book.

The headstone of Dorothy LoudonLoudon was married to Norman Paris, a composer who wrote the theme song for the television game show I've Got a Secret and arranged the music for Stephen Sondheim's television musical Evening Primrose, from 1971 until his death in 1977.

In reviewing the 2005 concert, Charles Isherwood wrote: " This pared-down production of one of Mr. Sondheim's most challenging works, a gothic romance about a young military officer drawn into an intense relationship with a sick, ugly woman, illuminates the shapely beauty and emotional vibrancy of Mr. Sondheim's score with unsettling, ultimately shattering force.

Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).

She toured the United States in Stephen Sondheim's well-reviewed musical A Little Night Music, then took the show to London, and thus originated the role of Desirée Armfeldt on the West End.

Doing the show for three years, she said she never tired of Sondheim's music ; " No matter how tired or off you felt, the music would just pick you up.

The show beat several strong competitors in many categories, including Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

And Mr. LaChiusa's Charlotte, like Mr. Sondheim's Bobby, is a wistful, disengaged soul who is surrounded by people who advise her on how to live .... The problem, as the show goes on, is that there's an inevitable monotony to Charlotte's interior life.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

The score, Sondheim's first time on Broadway writing both words and music, was coolly received, however, not even garnering a nomination.

Sondheim's score was not especially well received at the time.

Although it was Sondheim's only Top 40 hit, his songs are frequently performed and recorded by cabaret artists and theatre singers in their solo careers.

Sondheim's music director, Paul Gemignani, said, “ Part of Steve ’ s ability is this extraordinary versatility .” Merrily, however, was a 16-performance flop.

" Their first collaboration was Sunday in the Park with George ( 1984 ), in which Sondheim's music evoked the pointillist painting technique of its subject, Georges Seurat.

* Sweeney Todd, ( 2007 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work, made with Sondheim's participation and approval, was directed by Tim Burton, featuring a largely nonmusical cast led by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

On July 31, 2010, a BBC Proms concert was held to celebrate Sondheim's 80th Birthday at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.

Weaver earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Yale University School of Drama in 1974, where one of her appearances was in the chorus in a production of Stephen Sondheim's musical version of The Frogs, and another was as one of a mob of Roman soldiers alongside Meryl Streep in another production.

Glynis Johns ( born 5 October 1923 ) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer ( notably of " Send in the Clowns ", which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and " Sister Suffragette " which was written for her for Walt Disney's musical motion picture, Mary Poppins written by the Sherman Brothers ).

He spent his first two years overseeing the redesign of the theatre, and his opening production was Stephen Sondheim's Assassins in 1992.

Original Broadway Cast recording of the musical was nominated for 1988 Grammy Award in the category Best Musical Cast Show Album ( won by the Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods ).

In 1961, Moreno landed the role of Anita in Robert Wise's and Jerome Robbins ' film adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's and Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Broadway musical, West Side Story, which was played by Chita Rivera on Broadway.

Her last stage performance was a 1998 production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, in which she played the hardboiled survivor Carlotta Campion and received rave reviews for her rendition of the song " I'm Still Here ".

She was faced with an arduous task, given Rodgers open dismissal of Sondheim's lyrics as " shit " and eventually banned Laurents from rehearsals completely.

" The song was actually featured in the 1966 television musical, Olympus 7-000, part of the ABC Stage 67 series which also produced Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose.

Kattan was to play Xanthias in the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs but he was replaced during previews by Roger Bart .< ref >

In an interview with The Times, he stated that he began writing lyrics as a child, some of which were " dark and contemplative – precociously murderous and quite, quite feisty " was motivated to do so professionally in the 1970s when his grandmother, actress Angela Baddeley, starred in a London stage production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.