Stephen Sondheim
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Born | Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930-03-22)March 22, 1930
New York City, U.S. |
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Died | November 26, 2021(2021-11-26) (aged 91)
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Alma mater | Williams College |
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Years active | 1952–2021 |
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Musical career |
Genres | Musical theater |
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Steven Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist.
Personal life
Sondheim was born into a Jewish[1] family in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was openly gay.[2] In 2017, he married Jeffrey Romley.
Sondheim died on November 26, 2021 from heart disease in Roxbury, Connecticut at the age of 91.[3]
Career
Sondheim wrote the words for songs in Gypsy and West Side Story. Of American composers still living, he had won the most awards. He won:
Sondheim wrote both the music and the words to his musicals.
Many critics like his work, but some people do not like it. Sweeney Todd is very different from the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Some of Sondheim's musicals
- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
- Follies
- A Little Night Music
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Into The Woods
- Sweeney Todd
References
- ↑ J is for Jewish dramatists
- ↑ Another opening, another show
- ↑ "Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91". The New York Times. November 26, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
Other websites
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (related page: motion picture) |
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- John Paxton (1946)
- Anthony Veiller (1947)
- John Paxton (1948)
- Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds (1949)
- Mel Dinelli and Cornell Woolrich (1950)
- Ben Maddow (1951)
- Michael Wilson (1952)
- Michael Wilson and Otto Lang (1953)
- Sydney Boehm (1954)
- John Michael Hayes (1955)
- Joseph Hayes (1956)
- Reginald Rose (1958)
- Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1959)
- Ernest Lehman (1960)
- Joseph Stefano (1961)
- William Archibald and Truman Capote (1962)
- Peter Stone (1964)
- Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller (1965)
- Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper (1966)
- William Goldman (1967)
- Stirling Silliphant (1968)
- Harry Kleiner and Alan Trustman (1969)
- Costa Gavras and Jorge Semprún (1970)
- Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro (1971)
- Ernest Tidyman (1972)
- Anthony Shaffer (1973)
- Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim (1974)
- Robert Towne (1975)
- David Rayfiel and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (1976)
- Ernest Lehman (1977)
- Robert Benton (1978)
- William Goldman (1979)
- Michael Crichton (1980)
- Joseph Wambaugh (1981)
- Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (1982)
- Barrie Keeffe (1983)
- Dennis Potter (1984)
- Charles Fuller (1985)
- William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace (1986)
- E. Max Frye (1987)
- Jim Kouf (1988)
- Errol Morris (1989)
- Daniel Waters (1990)
- Donald E. Westlake (1991)
- Ted Tally (1992)
- Michael Tolkin (1993)
- Ebbe Roe Smith (1994)
- Quentin Tarantino (1995)
- Christopher McQuarrie (1996)
- Billy Bob Thornton (1997)
- Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1998)
- Scott Frank and Elmore Leonard (1999)
- Guy Ritchie (2000)
- Stephen Gaghan and Simon Moore (2001)
- Christopher Nolan (2002)
- Bill Condon (2003)
- Steven Knight (2004)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Sébastien Japrisot (2005)
- Stephen Gaghan and Robert Baer (2006)
- William Monahan (2007)
- Tony Gilroy (2008)
- Martin McDonagh (2009)
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