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.

At several points, Sondheim has multiple performers each sing a different song simultaneously.

Mr. Sondheim has written several pleasing songs but not enough of them to give the musical wings.

Another draft of the opening number, " Invocation and Instructions to the Audience ," has been used in subsequent revues of Sondheim songs and was sung by Nathan Lane in the musical The Frogs.

However, as Stephen Sondheim has noted:

Sondheim has attributed his success in theater directly to Hammerstein's influence and guidance.

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.

Cameron Mackintosh has described Sondheim as " possibly the greatest lyricist ever.

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.

) Sondheim has expressed his dislike of movie musicals, favoring classic dramas like Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath, and A Matter of Life and Death.

While this may be one of the best-known shows Sondheim ever worked on, he has expressed dissatisfaction with his lyrics, stating they do not always fit the characters and are sometimes too consciously poetic.

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.

After the completion of Do I Hear a Waltz, Sondheim has devoted himself to both composing and writing lyrics for a series of varied and adventurous musicals, beginning with the innovative " concept musical " Company in 1970.

His musical influences are varied ; Sondheim has claimed that he " loves Bach " but his favorite period is Brahms to Stravinsky.

Sondheim has said that he has " about 20 – 30 minutes of the musical completed.

Sondheim has received the following honors:

Sondheim has been described as being extremely introverted and a mostly solitary person.

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.

Stephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other composer, with eight.

Sondheim has contributed new songs to several of the show's incarnations.

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.

Stephen Sondheim has cited Rodgers and Hammerstein as having had a crucial influence on his work.

Sondheim has said of Peters, " Like very few others, she sings and acts at the same time ," he says.

( 1965 ), for which he had written the lyrics to Richard Rodgers's music, Sondheim decided that he would henceforth work only on projects where he could write both the music and lyrics himself.

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 ).

Pacific Overtures is a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

* By Bernstein ( 1975 )- music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, additional lyrics by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Latouche, Jerry Leiber, and Stephen Sondheim ; written and conceived by Comden and Green, with Michael Bawtree, Norman L. Berman and the Chelsea Theatre Center.

Category: Songs written by Stephen Sondheim

Seventy-eight episodes were made: the pilot episode and a few of the early episodes were written by Stephen Sondheim.

With the help of Oscar Hammerstein, Laurents convinced Bernstein and Sondheim to move " One Hand, One Heart ", which he considered too pristine for the balcony scene, to the scene set in the bridal shop, and as a result " Tonight " was written to replace it.

Weidman had written the book for Pacific Overtures and would work with Sondheim again on Road Show.

* The 1979 musical " Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street " written by Stephen Sondheim and based upon Christopher Bond's 1973 play of the same name, begins with its protagonist, Sweeney Todd, returning to London in 1846 having spent fifteen years in an unnamed British penal colony in Australia.

The Stephen Sondheim Society put on a student concert version of the musical at the University of Birmingham, written by Professor Stephen Banfield.

Remick appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle, written by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, which ran for only a week.

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.

A parody of the song, with different lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim, is entitled " The Boy From ...".

He has written the books for a wide variety of stage musicals, three in collaboration with Stephen Sondheim: Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and Road Show.

Tick, Tick ... Boom bears some similarity to Company, written by Larson's idol Stephen Sondheim.

A musical comedy named The Frogs, by Burt Shevelove, and freely based on a play written by Aristophanes in 405 B. C., its music had been composed, and its lyrics written, by Stephen Sondheim.

Cant's theatre credits include Still Playing Away, The Railway Children, Present Laughter, An Ideal Husband, Habeas Corpus, Gaslight, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Canterbury Tales ( in which he memorably ad-libbed a reference to his work on Play School ), Oh Coward, There's No Place Like a Home and many more, as well as thirty two pantomimes, including an adaptation of " Aladdin " at the Wolverhampton Grand written by Ian Billings.

The lyrics of " The Boy From ...", a parody of " The Girl from Ipanema ", were semi-anonymously written by Stephen Sondheim.