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These plans also did not work out, and finally Harold Prince, who had worked previously with Sondheim, became the producer and director.
He had agreed to work on The Girls Upstairs if Sondheim would agree to work on Company ; Michael Bennett, the young choreographer of Company, was also brought onto the project.
" A few painful years of struggle " followed for Sondheim, during which he continually auditioned songs, living in his father's dining room to save money ; he also spent time in Hollywood writing for the television series Topper.
Weidman would also write the book for Road Show, with music and lyrics by Sondheim.
The Sondheim – Lapine collaboration also produced a musical reimagining classic fairy-tales, Into the Woods ( 1987 ).
Sondheim also wrote new lyrics to " Night Waltz.
Sondheim himself was the first recipient of the award, which also includes a $ 5000 honorarium for the recipients ' choice of a nonprofit organization.
The Tower of Bray is also referenced in the song Parlour Songs in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd, although the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical.
He also sang a song written especially for him by Sondheim in the film The Birdcage, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination.
Little Red Riding Hood is also one of the central characters in the 1987 Broadway musical Into the Woods by Steven Sondheim and James Lapine.
His short story " Evening Primrose " was the subject of a 1966 television musical by Stephen Sondheim, and it was also adapted for the radio series Escape and by BBC Radio.
The company has also occasionally produced musicals and operettas including works by Stephen Sondheim and Gilbert & Sullivan.
He was also known for his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim: the highly successful Company, the ill-fated Merrily We Roll Along and the ( equally ill-fated ) drama, Getting Away with Murder.
She also played the role of Lynette " Squeaky " Fromme in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins Off-Broadway in 1990-1991.
Past and present residents of the building include such famous personalities as Stephen Sondheim, Tiger Woods, Steven Spielberg, Donna Karan, Tony Randall, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, U2 frontman Bono, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis, Trey Parker, Eddie Cantor, Robert Stigwood, Marshall Brickman, Jackie Leo, Don Hewitt, Billy Squier, and Texas natural-gas heiress Adelaide de Menil but also some businessmen: Dodi Fayed, Andrew Tobias, Aaron Spelling, Jack Sherwall, Hedy Lamarr.
Past productions have also included four Pulitzer Prize winners: Doug Wright ’ s I Am My Own Wife, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles.
At Avery Fisher Hall, he performed with the Radio City Rockettes in Jerry Herman's Mack and Mabel and also in The Stephen Sondheim Gala, the culmination of the Kennedy Center's " Summer of Sondheim ," where Hugh played Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd.
It also targets famous Broadway actors, writers, composers, directors, choreographers and producers, including Julie Andrews, Mel Brooks, Carol Channing, Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Crawford, Harvey Fierstein, Bob Fosse, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Goulet, Jerry Herman, Dustin Hoffman, Jennifer Holliday, Elton John, Angela Lansbury, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Patti LuPone, Cameron Mackintosh, Mary Martin, Idina Menzel, Ethel Merman, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Bebe Neuwirth, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Barbra Streisand, Julie Taymor and Gwen Verdon.
There was also a special performance by Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd-Webber, who spoofed their own songs.
While Dracula learns that America contains such wonders as blood banks, he also proceeds to suffer the general ego-crushing that comes from modern life in the Big Apple as he romantically pursues flaky fashion model Cindy Sondheim, whom he has admired from afar and believes to be the current reincarnation of his true love ( an earlier being named Mina Harker ).
He also appeared in an episode of CBS ' Two and a Half Men on November 12, 2007, and played Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, Iowa.
The young Steven Sondheim also set a musical version, but the author refused permission, so the musical was never produced.

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Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.
Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.
Stephen Sondheim wrote the song " Comedy Tonight " for this new opening.
Later, Sondheim attended the New York Military Academy and George School, a private Quaker preparatory school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he wrote his first musical (" By George !").
Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?
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.
While at George School, Sondheim wrote a comic musical based on the goings-on of his school, entitled By George.
In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.
It has been rumored that while Bernstein was off trying to fix the musical Candide, Sondheim wrote some of the music for West Side Story, and that Bernstein ’ s co-lyricist billing credit mysteriously disappeared from the credits of West Side Story during the tryout, presumably as a trade-off.
Eventually Sondheim wrote both the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Sondheim stated that Goldman wrote one or two drafts of the script and Sondheim wrote six and a half songs, only to have director Rob Reiner lose interest in the project.
Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote The Race to Urga, scheduled to play at the Lincoln Center in 1969, but when Jerome Robbins left the project, it went unproduced.
Sondheim wrote a book of annotations of his lyrics titled Finishing the Hat ( 2010 ), a collection of his lyrics " from productions dating 1954 – 1981.
* I Know My Love ( 1951 ), play, Sondheim wrote a Christmas carol for it
* Twigs ( 1971 ), play by George Furth, wrote song Hollywood and Vine ( Music by Stephen Sondheim and lyrics by George Furth )
Megan McCarthy confirmed that Amy Rogers, who wrote those songs, is a huge Sondheim fan and would actually record her own scratch track on the piano for the songs.
Sondheim wrote the song specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway.
Sondheim wrote the lyrics and music over a two-day period during rehearsals for the play's Broadway debut, specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée.

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The concert included Sondheim music and songs performed, in some cases, by the original performers.
It has been rumored that while Bernstein was off trying to fix the musical Candide, Sondheim wrote some of the music for West Side Story, and that Bernstein's co-lyricist billing mysteriously disappeared from the credits of West Side Story during the tryout, presumably as a trade-off.
With glamorous costumes and sets, a musical score by Stephen Sondheim, and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the title-role, it was seen as Resnais's most commercial film to date, but its complex narrative structure showed clear links with some of the formal preoccupations of his earlier films.
Tick, Tick ... Boom bears some similarity to Company, written by Larson's idol Stephen Sondheim.
Like the related Codework of jodi, Netochka Nezvanova, Ted Warnell, Alan Sondheim and lo_y, it bears some resemblance to hacker cultural 1337 / leet speak and Perl poetry.
Their recent releases include two volumes of the Sondheim Sings series, a collection of demo recordings by composer Stephen Sondheim which highlight some of his early, lesser-known work.
The same themes and characterisations would resurface some 70 years later in the Broadway show A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim.

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