Stephen Sondheim
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 3 years ago |
| Web site | www.sondheim.com |
| Date of birth | March 22,1930 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | New York |
| United States | |
| Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
| Died | Roxbury |
| Connecticut | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Jeff Romley |
| Plays | Company |
| Into the Woods | |
| Merrily We Roll Along | |
| Songs | 1991 |
| List | Being AliveA Stephen Sondheim Evening · 1983 |
| A Little PriestSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street · 1979 | |
| Could I Leave You?Follies · 1971 | |
| Getting Married TodaySide by Side by Sondheim (1978 Australian cast) · 1978 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1983 | |
| 1978 | |
| Albums | Bernstein's West Side Story (1957 original Broadway cast) |
| Date of died | November 26,2021 |
| Parents | Herbert Sondheim |
| Etta Janet Fox | |
| Songwriting partner | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Leonard Bernstein | |
| Record labels | Masterworks Broadway |
| Columbia Records | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 407107 |
West Side Story
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
The Birdcage
Company
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Little Night Music
Gypsy
Six By Sondheim
The Last of Sheila
Reds
Stavisky. . .
The Seven- Per-Cent Solution
Camp
Putting It Together
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Into the Woods
Follies
Academy Award for Best Original Song
Tony Award for Best Original Score
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
Special Tony Award
Grammy Award for Song of the Year
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Laurence Olivier Award for Society of London Theatre Special Award
Grammy Trustees Award
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival
Obie Award for Music And Lyrics
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement
Laurence Olivier Mastercard Award for Best New Musical
Stephen Sondheim Life story
Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited for reinventing the American musical.
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... The winners in fullBest performer in a musical - Courtney Bowman, Legally Blonde, Regent s Park Open Air TheatreBest supporting performer in a musical - Lauren Drew, Legally Blonde, Regent s Park Open Air TheatreBest performer in a play - Jodie Comer, Prima Facie, Harold Pinter TheatreBest supporting performer in a play - Gwyneth Keyworth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gielgud TheatreBest takeover performance - Lucie Jones, Wicked, Apollo Victoria TheatreBest professional debut performance - Joe Locke, The Trials, Donmar WarehouseBest new musical - Bonnie & Clyde the Musical, Arts TheatreBest musical revival - Rodgers & Hammerstein s Oklahoma! Young VicBest new play - Prima Facie, Harold Pinter TheatreBest play revival - Cock, Ambassadors TheatreBest West End show - Six, Vaudeville TheatreBest regional production - Billy Elliot the Musical, Curve, LeicesterBest off-West End Production - But I m A Cheerleader: The Musical, The Turbine TheatreBest concert event - Stephen Sondheim s Old Friends, Sondheim TheatreBest direction - Phelim McDermott, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest musical direction/supervision - Bruce O Neil and Matt Smith, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest casting direction - Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher, Spring Awakening, Almeida TheatreBest choreography - Arlene Phillips, Grease, Dominion TheatreBest costume design - Gabriella Slade, The Cher Show, UK tourBest lighting design - Jessica Hung Han Yun, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest set design - Tom Pye and Basil Twist, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest sound design - Tony Gayle, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest video design - Joshua Thorson, Rodgers & Hammerstein s Oklahoma! Young VicBest graphic design - Studio Doug, Prima Facie, Harold Pinter TheatreRelated Topics...
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Stephen Sondheim: Live recording of Phinney's Rainbow found on bookshelf
By Rebecca JonesArts correspondent, Bbc News
A rare live recording of one of Stephen Sondheim 's earliest musicals has been discovered on a bookshelf in the US city of Milwaukee.
The American composer and lyricist wrote Phinney's Rainbow when he was an 18-year-old student in 1948.
The celebrated songwriter, is best known for West Side Story and Gypsy.
" This is The First original cast recording of a Sondheim show, " Paul Salsini told Bbc News .
He found the CD while he was cleaning his office.
" I noticed that there was a space between a couple of CDs and I looked at the shelf below and found that this recording had fallen down into The Next shelf. It had literally fallen through the cracks. "
The Show had four performances at Williams College in Massachusetts and someone, possibly even Sondheim himself, recorded it before it was eventually transferred to a CD.
Lasting 1hr 20mins, it is a sizeable score with 19 tracks. Salsini, who's 87, and the author of the memoir Sondheim and Me: Revealing a Musical Genius, says " it's a mystery" where the recording came from.
It's an amateur recording and The Sound quality is not great.
Some words are muffled and there is background noise, frequent bursts of laughter and applause, as well as a few glitches and silence.
Nonetheless, the eminent music scholar Stephen Banfield , who wrote Sondheim's Broadway Musicals, said he is " absolutely delighted that it's come to light" and it is significant.
" Any complete recording of a live show from 1948 is pretty important, there aren't many, " He Said .
" I'm not aware that we have recordings of any of The Other shows that Sondheim did when he was a youngster. The importance of it is that it's the earliest Sondheim we're likely to hear. Earliest in both senses of him actually playing one of the two pianos in The Performance and also in the fact that it's his own music. "
Professor Banfield added: " It's always important to see where an artist came from, what they were aiming for when they were young".
He Said Sondheim could detect " certain pointers" in some of the tracks towards songs which appear in later musicals including Sweeney Todd and Into The Woods .
Paul Salsini is now donating the CD to the Sondheim Research Collection in Milwaukee to enable the wider public to hear it.
But he does not think Phinney's Rainbow should be performed again.
" No, no it's a college Musical . . it's a curiosity piece it really is, " He Said .
" But it's an interesting curiosity piece not only because it was The First for him but because of how it had showed the imagination and tendencies that he would show through the rest of his career. "
Source of news: bbc.com
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