Stephen Sondheim
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Among the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, Sondheim was praised for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication". His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience" with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life. Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). Sondheim's accolades include eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has a theater named for him both on Broadway and in the West End of London. Sondheim wrote film music, contributing "Goodbye for Now" for Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). He wrote five songs for 1990's Dick Tracy, including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", sung in the film by Madonna, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Film adaptations of Sondheim's work include West Side Story (1961), Gypsy (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), A Little Night Music (1977), Gypsy (1993), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into the Woods (2014), West Side Story (2021), and Merrily We Roll Along (TBD).
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(Stephen Sondheim (voice on phone) (uncredited))
Assassins: A Conversationpiece
(Self)
Into the Woods: A Conversationpiece
(Self)
Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
(Self)
On Broadway
(Self (archive footage))
Something's Coming: West Side Story
(Self)
Original Cast Album: Company
(Self)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
(Self)
The Stories of West Side Story
(Self)
A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
(Self)
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
(Self)
Keeping Company with Sondheim
(Self)
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
Six by Sondheim
(Self / Joe)
The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
(Self)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
(Self)
Sunday in the Park with... Stephen
The Last of Sheila Featurette
(Self)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(Stephen Sondheim)
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
(Self)
West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic
(Self)
Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
(Himself)
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
(Self)
West Side Memories
(Self)
June Moon
(Maxie Schwartz)
Follies: In Concert
(Self- Composer)
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
(Self)
Camp
(Self)
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
(Self - Honoree)
Witness to 'Reds'
(Self)
Inside the Actors Studio
(Self)
The Simpsons
(Stephen Sondheim (voice))
The Merv Griffin Show
(Self)
The Colbert Report
Pebble Mill
(Self)
The Kennedy Center Honors
(Self)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self (archive footage))
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Previn and the Pittsburgh
(Self)
Live from Lincoln Center
(Self)
Broadway: The American Musical
(Self)
Great Performances
(Maxie Schwartz)
Great Performances
(Self)
Chita: A Legendary Celebration
(Lyricist)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Lyricist)
Into the Woods
(Musical)
Putting It Together
(Musical)
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
(Lyricist)
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
(Music)
Pacific Overtures
(Musical)
Passion
(Musical)
Sunday In the Park With George
(Musical)
A Little Night Music
(Songs)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Musical)
Original Cast Album: Company
(Music)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
(Music)
National Theatre Live: Follies
(Musical)
Sunday in the Park with George
(Musical)
West Side Story
(Thanks)
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
(Thanks)
Sunday in the Park with... Stephen
(Original Music Composer)
Company
(Musical)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Music)
Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
(Music)
Gypsy
(Musical)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Songs)
Sunday in the Park with George
(Songs)
Passion
(Songs)
Sunday in the Park with George
(Lyricist)
Company
(Songs)
Sunday In the Park With George
(Songs)
Company
(Lyricist)
Company: A Musical Comedy
(Lyricist)
Passion
(Lyricist)
Sunday In the Park With George
(Lyricist)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Lyricist)
National Theatre Live: Follies
(Songs)
National Theatre Live: Follies
(Lyricist)
Putting It Together
(Songs)
Putting It Together
(Lyricist)
Company: A Musical Comedy
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Lyricist)
Company
(Lyricist)
Pacific Overtures
(Lyricist)
Pacific Overtures
(Songs)
Company
(Songs)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Musical)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Music)
Mostly Sondheim
(Songs)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
(Music)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
(Lyricist)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Musical)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Music)
Into the Woods
(Musical)
Road Show
(Music)
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
(Songs)
The Last of Sheila
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
(Writer)
Road Show
(Writer)
Candide
(Writer)
Into the Woods
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Lyricist)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Music)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Songs)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Musical)
Reds
(Original Music Composer)
Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
(Lyricist)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(In Memory Of)
Into the Woods
(Musical)
Into the Woods
(Songs)
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
(Music)
Candide
(Writer)
Candide
(Lyricist)
Pacific Overtures
(Music)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Songs)
Original Cast Album: Company
(Lyricist)
Original Cast Album: Company
(Songs)
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
(Lyricist)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Lyricist)
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
(Songs)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
(Songs)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
(Lyricist)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Songs)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Lyricist)
Stavisky...
(Original Music Composer)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Songs)
Six by Sondheim
(Songs)
Candide
(Lyricist)
Follies
(Songs)
Follies
(Lyricist)
Follies
(Lyricist)
Follies
(Songs)
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
(Songs)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
(Songs)
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
(Lyricist)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
(Lyricist)
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
(Songs)
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
(Lyricist)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Songs)
Candide
(Lyricist)
Marry Me a Little
(Songs)
Gypsy
(Writer)
West Side Story
(Writer)
Company
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Original Music Composer)
Putting It Together
(Writer)
Evening Primrose
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
(Original Music Composer)
Putting It Together
(Original Music Composer)
Company
(Writer)
Company: A Musical Comedy
(Original Music Composer)
Into the Woods
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Writer)
Company
(Original Music Composer)
Company: A Musical Comedy
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Original Music Composer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Writer)
Passion
(Writer)
Company
(Original Music Composer)
Gypsy
(Writer)
Sunday in the Park with George
(Original Music Composer)
Gypsy
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Original Music Composer)
A Little Night Music
(Writer)
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
(Songs)
Passion
(Original Music Composer)
West Side Story
(Writer)
Into the Woods
(Writer)
Into the Woods
(Original Music Composer)
Pacific Overtures
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Writer)
Pacific Overtures
(Original Music Composer)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Writer)
Sunday in the Park with George
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Writer)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Original Music Composer)
Dick Tracy
(Original Music Composer)
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
(Songs)
Passion
(Songs)
Company
(Musical)
Sweeney Todd: El Barber Diabòlic del Carrer Fleet
(Music)
Sweeney Todd: El Barber Diabòlic del Carrer Fleet
(Lyricist)
Into the Woods
(Writer)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Music)
Merrily We Roll Along
(Lyricist)
Into the Woods
(Original Music Composer)
Passion
(Original Music Composer)
Candide
(Lyricist)
Company: A Musical Comedy
(Musical)
Dick Tracy
(Songs)
Candide
(Writer)
A Little Night Music
(Lyricist)
West Side Story
(Lyricist)
Evening Primrose
(Songs)
Evening Primrose
(Lyricist)
Into the Woods
(Lyricist)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Lyricist)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Songs)
A Little Night Music
(Original Music Composer)
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
(Music)
Evening Primrose
(Original Music Composer)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Original Music Composer)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
(Original Music Composer)
Gypsy
(Lyricist)
Simply Sondheim
(Writer)
Follies: In Concert
(Songs)
Judy Collins: A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim
(Music)
Follies: In Concert
(Original Music Composer)
Follies: In Concert
(Lyricist)
West Side Story
(Lyricist)
Assassins
(Music)
Assassins
(Lyricist)
Assassins
(Writer)
Assassins
(Songs)
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
(Writer)
Live from Lincoln Center
(Writer)
Live from Lincoln Center
(Original Music Composer)