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Nov 27, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.
- 5 min
- Linda Holmes
- Peter Nason
- BEING ALIVE [Company; 1970; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim] It's Bobby's moment of truth at the end of Company, and it turns into perhaps Sondheim's most emotional wallop of a song.
- SEND IN THE CLOWNS [A Little Night Music; 1973; music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim] Some consider this Sondheim's finest song. It's certainly his most popular, charting twice on the Billboard Hot 100 for Judy Collins (in 1975 and 1977).
- LOSING MY MIND [Follies; 1971; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim] Where "Seasons of Love" from Rent deals with an entire year, Stephen Sondheim's yearning, haunting "Losing My Mind" subtly deals with a single day: from "the sun comes up," to "the morning ends," to "all afternoon," ending with "sleepless nights."
- EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES [Gypsy; 1959; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim] There's something powerful about end-of-Act 1 anthems that catapult audiences into Intermission with excited chills and gooseflesh.
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 176 votes. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.
- Company. 147 votes. Company is a 1970 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six.
- Sunday in the Park with George. 155 votes. Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.
- Into the Woods. 186 votes. Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests.
- “Maria” // West Side Story (1957) Though Sondheim enjoyed composing music much more than writing lyrics, he came on board Arthur Laurents’ Romeo and Juliet update to write lyrics for music composed by Leonard Bernstein.
- “Rose’s Turn” // Gypsy (1959) Though he was worried that writing lyrics would pigeonhole him as a lyricist, Sondheim picked up his pen again to write the lyrics for the Ethel Merman vehicle Gypsy, with a book by Laurents and music by Jule Styne.
- “Ladies Who Lunch” // Company (1970) Company’s Joanne—a cynical older woman who is friends with the show’s main character, Robert—was based on the legendary Elaine Stritch, “or at least on her acerbic delivery of self-assessment,” Sondheim wrote in Finishing the Hat.
- “Send In The Clowns” // A Little Night Music (1973) A Little Night Music, with lyrics and music by Sondheim, was based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night.
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- Katcy Stephan
- ‘The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ Now this is how you open a show. Sondheim found the perfect way to let his audience know exactly what they were in for in the opening number of “Sweeney Todd.”
- ‘Somewhere,’ ‘West Side Story’ The beauty of this duet is almost powerful enough to convince the audience that maybe things will turn out alright for Tony and Maria.
- ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses,’ ‘Gypsy’ The ultimate optimist’s anthem, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” closes out Act 1 of “Gypsy,” when Rose promises to make her daughter Louise a big star.
- ‘Send in the Clowns,’ ‘A Little Night Music’ After rejecting her true love, Fredrick, actress Desirée finally realizes after years that a life with him is what she wants.
Stephen Sondheim was born in New York in 1930. He has written the music and lyrics for twelve Broadway musicals and the lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear a Waltz?, as well as many other songs.
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Feb 14, 2022 · D. T. Max talks with the legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, who died in November, about the ideas he’d abandoned, the minutiae of his technique, and the lesson that any artist must learn.
