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      • American lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim wrote musicals based on sources as varied as fairy tales, a painting by Georges Seurat, ancient Roman comedy and an Ingmar Bergman film.
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  2. Jun 4, 2019 · As far as I can see, there hasnt been a musical by Sondheim with ‘Beat’ in the title. But I just went through both the unproduced musicals section and the index of the Sondheim “Hat Box” books. Could it maybe have something to do with the music that SS wrote for Warren Beatty’s Reds?

  3. At Williams, Sondheim wrote a musical adaption of Beggar on Horseback (a 1924 play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, with Kaufman's permission) that had three performances. [28] A member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, [29] he graduated magna cum laude in 1950. [30]

  4. Dec 3, 2021 · American lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim wrote musicals based on sources as varied as fairy tales, a painting by Georges Seurat, ancient Roman comedy and an Ingmar Bergman film.

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  5. Sep 30, 2024 · He studied piano and organ, and at age 15 he wrote a musical at George School in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Under the tutelage of a family friend, Oscar Hammerstein II, he studied musical theater. He also studied music at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and wrote college shows there.

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  6. Aug 8, 2023 · As a teenager, the budding artist had been mentored by his friend’s father, Oscar Hammerstein, who himself had changed Musical Theatre in 1943 when he and Richard Rodgers brought true characters and drama to so-called musical comedy when writing the first fully fledged musical play, Oklahoma!

  7. Aug 28, 2023 · When Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, the composer had been working for years on a new musical, “Here We Are” opening at The Shed, with the playwright David Ives and the director Joe Mantello.

  8. Company is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The original 1970 production was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards, winning six.

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