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

" 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.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

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

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.

" Bernadette Peters quoted Sondheim on the character of " Sally ": " He said early on that is off balance, to put it mildly.

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.

According to Stephen Sondheim, " What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the theater was as a theoretician, as a Peter Brook, as an innovator.

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

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.

But if Pacific Overtures is never going to be anyone's favorite Sondheim musical, it is a far more forceful and enjoyable evening at the Promenade than it was eight years ago at the Winter Garden ... Many of the songs are brilliant, self-contained playlets.

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.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; born March 22, 1930 ) is an American composer and lyricist known for his contributions to musical theatre.

As an only child of well-to-do parents living in the San Remo on Central Park West, he is described in Meryle Secrest's biography, Stephen Sondheim: A Life, as having had an isolated and emotionally neglected childhood.

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

The Cleveland Jewish News reported on the Oberlin event, writing: " Sondheim said: ' Movies are photographs ; the stage is larger than life.

The script, with concept notes by McNally and Sondheim, is archived in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

In an interview in 2008, Sondheim said " There is a move afoot to do Follies movie with a well-known director and a well-known star, and I'm not going to tell you who they are.

* The song " Art of the Dress " on Season 1 of the children's program My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic ( 2011 ) is similar to a Sondheim song.

( 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.

Sondheim himself insisted that Bernstein told the producers to list Sondheim as the sole lyricist.

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.

* Sondheim had a guest part on The Simpsons episode " Yokel Chords " as himself ( 2007 ).

Sondheim himself was the first recipient of the award, which also includes a $ 5000 honorarium for the recipients ' choice of a nonprofit organization.

Sondheim himself apologizes for flaws in his composition.

Passion is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with Sweeney Todd and Road Show.

A chance encounter with Billy Wilder at a cocktail party gave Sondheim the opportunity to introduce himself and ask the original film's co-screenwriter and director his opinion of the project ( which was to star Jeanette MacDonald ).

When Brown was 23, he and a friend were invited to see a musical by Stephen Sondheim himself.

Offenbach, a frequent parodist ( of among others Gluck, Donizetti and Meyerbeer ), was himself parodied by later composers from Saint-Saëns to Sondheim.

An avid fan of games, in 1968 and 1969 Sondheim published a series of cryptic crossword puzzles in New York magazine.

: Stephen Sondheim ’ s puzzles for New York Magazine have been collected in book form.

The failure of Merrily greatly affected Sondheim ; he was ready to quit theatre and do movies or create video games or write mysteries.

Sometimes referred to as the Liebeslieder Singers although Sondheim and Wheeler did not script them to have that title, using Quintet instead.

In an interview, Peters said that Sondheim had " proposed the idea to her this spring and urged the producers of the revival to cast her.

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.

Sondheim said: " As for the three songs ... going together well, I might as well confess.

Sondheim initially conceived Desiree as a role for a more-or-less non-singing actress.

The narrative and staging will be Mr. Laurent's handiwork ; music and lyrics that of Stephen Sondheim.

Sondheim discovered that Laurents hated doing backers ' auditions and he took over that responsibility, playing and singing more than 30.

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.

" Sondheim called the reviews " humiliating " and the audiences " hostile.

The show became a cult favorite, and a truncated original cast recording released by Columbia Records sold well among Sondheim fans and musical theatre buffs.

history, and Stephen Sondheim was present at the post-matinee talkback on April 10.

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

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

Stephen Sondheim wrote the song " Comedy Tonight " for this new opening.

Two songs were dropped from the show, and two new Sondheim songs were added.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.