A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Eager to work with both Laurents and Sondheim, Angela Lansbury accepted the lead role as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, despite her strong misgivings about the script and her ability to handle the score.

Also, according to Sondheim, " Lansbury was so insecure onstage, and unhappy with her performance, that we considered replacing her.

Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.

These plans also did not work out, and finally Harold Prince, who had worked previously with Sondheim, became the producer and director.

He continues to appear in live stage shows, including Barbra Streisand's memorable birthday party for Stephen Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl, in which he appeared with Angela Lansbury, performing selections from Sweeney Todd.

In 1983 he performed on the demo of the Stephen Sondheim – James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George, starring Mandy Patinkin.

He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George and Che in the original Broadway production of Evita.

The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

The New York Times review of the original 1976 production said " The lyrics are totally Western and — as is the custom with Mr. Sondheim — devilish, wittily and delightfully clever.

Mr. Sondheim is the most remarkable man in the Broadway musical today — and here he shows it victoriously ... Mr. Prince's staging uses all the familiar Kabuki tricks — often with voices screeching in the air like lonely sea birds — and stylizations with screens and things, and stagehands all masked in black to make them invisible to the audience.

In Four Black Dragons various peasants describe the arrival of the American ships with escalating panic, until finally the nightmarish event does seem to be, as claimed, the end of the world .... Someone in a Tree, is a compact Rashomon-and as fine as anything Mr. Sondheim has written ... The single Act II triumph, Bowler Hat, could well be a V. S. Naipaul tale set to music and illustrated with spare Japanese brushstrokes ... Bowler Hat delivers the point of Pacific Overtures so artfully that the rest of Act II seems superfluous.

In his interview with Meryle Secrest, Sondheim explained that he was “ what they call an institutionalized child, meaning one who has no contact with any kind of family.

At about the age of ten, around the time of his parents ' divorce, Sondheim became friends with James Hammerstein, son of the lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.

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.

This training primarily involved having Sondheim write four musicals, each with one of the following preconditions:

The idea came from when Sondheim was a panelist at producer Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theater Lab, and he read a script by playwright Charles Gilbert.

As a panelist at producer Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theater Lab, Sondheim read a script by playwright Charles Gilbert.

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast ( Dean Jones, Barbara Barrie, George Coe, Teri Rolston, John Cunningham & Beth Howland ) for Company

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer & lyricist ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast with Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou for Sweeney Todd

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer ), Goddard Lieberson ( producer ) & the original cast ( Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott & Teri Ralston ) for A Little Night Music

** Phil Ramone ( producer ), Stephen Sondheim ( composer & lyricist ) & the original cast for Passion

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer & lyricist ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast for Sunday in the Park with George

* 1977 Tony Award for Best Musical-Side by Side by Sondheim ( producer )

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer & lyricist ), Jay David Saks ( producer ), & various artists for Into the Woods

Thomas Z. Shepard is a prolific record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim.

" He noted that " the real triumph belongs to Stephen Sondheim ... the music is a celebration of 3 / 4 time, an orgy of plaintively memorable waltzes, all talking of past loves and lost worlds ... There is a peasant touch here.

In March 2008, Sondheim and Rich appeared in four interviews / conversations in California and Portland, Oregon titled " A Little Night Conversation with Stephen Sondheim ".

Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Perkins co-wrote, with composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila, for which they received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

According to an unauthorized biography by Charles Winecoff, he had affairs with photographer Christopher Makos, actor Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale prior to marrying Berenson.

Sondheim wrote two new song / scenes, " Delighted, I'm Sure " and " Montana Chem ".

She then returned to Broadway as Dot / Marie in the Stephen Sondheim – James Lapine musical Sunday in the Park with George ( 1984 ), for which she received her third Tony Award nomination.

* 1994: Passion – Book by James Lapine, music / lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

1970 marked the start of his greatest collaboration, with composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Examples of the former are Side By Side By Sondheim ( music / lyrics Stephen Sondheim ), Eubie!

* Stephen Sondheim, ' 46, Pulitzer Prize – winning composer / lyricist

Lubovitch made his Broadway debut in 1987 with the musical staging for the Stephen Sondheim / James Lapine musical, Into the Woods, for which he received a Tony Award nomination.

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.

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Over the years, Westport Country Playhouse apprentices have included composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim, screenwriter Frank Perry, television host Sally Jesse Raphael, composer Mary Rodgers, actor Cary Elwes, and actress Tammy Grimes.

In 2006, she took over from Anna-Jane Casey as Dot / Marie in the London revival of Sunday in the Park with George, by Stephen Sondheim for which she won the 2007 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

He appeared in the original Broadway production of the Hal Prince / Stephen Sondheim musical Follies, playing impresario Dimitri Weismann.

Orchestrator Jonathan Tunick used a combined Rock-Si-Chord / Electric Piano in the Stephen Sondheim musical " Company " ( 1970 ).

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