Posted on 11/26/2021 3:39:41 PM PST by DoodleDawg
Stephen Sondheim, one of history’s most prolific musical theater composers, died at his home in Connecticut on Friday, his lawyer told The New York Times.
The Broadway icon behind the music and lyrics for hits such as “Sweeney Todd,” “West Side Story,” “Into the Woods” and “Follies” was 91. His death was sudden, according to his lawyer and friend, F. Richard Pappas.
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Send in the clownish .. there ought to be clowns…don’t bother they’re here.
I hope he finally got something like that.
May Mr. Sondheim rest in God’s eternal peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW8IaLXvOgk
Adam Driver did a good job with “Being Alive”...one of my
favorite songs.
Mine too.
I know that Spielberg is doing a remake of "West Side Story". I am not looking forward to it.
I know that Spielberg is doing a remake of “West Side Story”. I am not looking forward to it. “
I can’t imagine it. That show was a snapshot of a moment in time. In terms of America, in terms of Broadway…I’d leave it alone.
The absolute best version of Send in the Clowns: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXua71_kDg
Everything is “coming up roses” in a different sense RIP.
My mother knew Sondheim’s mother, her co-worker at Bonwit-Teller in Manhattan in the ‘60s.
I worked for Showtime the movie channel back in the early 1980s just when they were really getting started. They have a show called Broadway on Showtime. I was lucky enough to see them taping Sunday in the park with George they were just a few people in the audience and I was one of them. Of course I had seen it several times before but it’s still, to me, one of the underrated shows of all times.
His musicals sound dreary. If I travel to New York and spend all that money, I want frothy and comic.
I only saw “Sweeney Todd” and “dreary” doesn’t begin to describe it. Here it is FORTY years later and I still remember how awful it was.
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