Sondheim's work is notable for his use of complex polyphony in the vocal parts, such as the chorus of five minor characters who function as a sort of Greek chorus in 1973's A Little Night Music.

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 songs performed and cut from productions.

* 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.

Sondheim-the Magazine is the Society magazine devoted to Sondheim's work, and is sent to every member of the Society.

Additionally, she appeared in several concerts featuring Sondheim's work, and performed for him at his 1993 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.

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.

The score is generally considered to be one of Sondheim's most ambitious and sophisticated efforts.

" Someone in a Tree ," where two witnesses describe negotiations between the Japanese and Americans, is Sondheim's favorite song out of everything he's ever written.

To fans, Sondheim's musical sophistication is considered to be greater than that of many of his musical theatre peers, and his lyrics are likewise renowned for their ambiguity, wit, and urbanity.

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 ).

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

* Follies, allegedly in pre-production is the film of Sondheim's Follies, with a script by Aaron Sorkin.

Per Sondheim's request, a prize is also offered for a new song by a young composer, judged by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.

A supporting character, Obsidian, is shown to be a fan of Sondheim's musical.

At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world.

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 ).

Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods features the Big Bad Wolf as a lustful and well-endowed character whose appetite for Little Red Riding Hood is more sexual than victual.

Tokugawa Ieyoshi is a minor character in Stephen Sondheim's musical " Pacific Overtures ," in which he is murdered by his mother, using poisoned chrysanthemum tea.

Disney has announced that Marshall is set to direct a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

Byck is also one of the ( failed ) assassins portrayed in Stephen Sondheim's and John Weidman's 1991 musical Assassins.

Kerry O ' Malley, his younger New Hampshire-born sister, is also an actress and a Broadway veteran ; she received critical attention for her role in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and recently appeared in several episodes of Showtime's Brotherhood.

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.

The seven musicians lack firepower for huge orchestral crescendos, but tease out the score's claustrophobic elements ... The Gate's interpretation of Sondheim's masterpiece is exciting and thoughtful, tragic and witty, entertaining yet provoking: a family musical, but not as we know it.

Peters ' other theatre roles have included Bedroom Farce ( 1996 ), Noises Off ( 1997 ) Stephen Sondheim's ' Into The Woods '( 1992 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1991 ), Follies in Concert, London Palladium ( 2007 ) and Guys and Dolls ( 1991 ) which was reviewed by Michael Schmidt who said " Among the hot box girls, one in particular kept catching my eye: Wendi Peters as the grumpy chorus girl is a delightfully outsize killjoy whose brilliant comic dancing should have earned her a curtain call all of her own "

) Sondheim's love of puzzles and mysteries can also be seen in the intricate " whodunit " he co-wrote with longtime friend Anthony Perkins, The Last of Sheila.

Johns also appeared on television and on stage, most memorably in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music.

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.

Porter also had two roles in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, at the National Theatre in 1990 and played Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Shaw Theatre, and Rosalind in As You Like It at the Ludlow Festival.

The original New York Times review of the 1994 Broadway production called the musical an " unalloyed love story " but also Sondheim's " most somber " since Sweeney Todd.

" 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.

Van Ark has also starred in the Williamstown Theater Festival productions of The Night of the Iguana, The Legend of Oedipus, and the festival's 40th anniversary production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

Ball also played Alex in Aspects of Love, both in London and New York, and Giorgio in the London production of Stephen Sondheim's Passion.

He also starred in the London production of Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, performing on the RCA Victor original London cast album.

It is also referred to in the song " Opening Doors " from Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along, which mentions it as a hypothetical song title in a satirical revue of the 1960s.

Vélez also played understudy for actress Phylicia Rashad in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

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.

Kudisch has also appeared in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, opposite Juliet Stevenson and Jeremy Irons, in a 2003 production at the New York City Opera, and with Victor Garber and Judith Ivey in a 2004 staging by the Los Angeles Opera.

He also appeared as Benjamin Stone in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies and created a role in the original Broadway production of Kander & Ebb's Steel Pier.

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

" 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.

( 1960 ), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line ( 1976 ), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Jonathan Larson's Rent ( 1996 ), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal ( 2010 ).

Spiner moved to New York City, where he became a stage actor, performing in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including The Three Musketeers and Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

Shepard recorded Sondheim's scores for Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along, the 1977 Broadway revival recording of The King and I, as well as the hits Ain't Misbehavin ', 42nd Street, and La Cage aux Folles.

In 1984, he performed in the original Broadway cast of Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

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

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

In May, 2006, PS Classics released their first London cast album, the London revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

It later hosted the West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's hit production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George, which starred Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell and ran till September.