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March 19, 2021

The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia

Everything Sondheim

Rick Pender, founding editor of Everything Sondheim, has created a brand new, detailed and comprehensive reference of well, everything Sondheim! The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater’s most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim’s numerous collaborators—from composers and directors to designers and orchestras—key songs—such as […]

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June 21, 2019

Interviewing Sondheim

By Brad Hathaway

In 1997, Stephen Sondheim sat down with Library of Congress Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz for three days, pouring over the manuscripts of many of his shows. He had agreed to bequeath his manuscripts to the library and Horowitz stood in for future researchers who might have questions about minute details revealed on those pages […]

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November 21, 2018

Everything We Know (and Don’t Know) about Sondheim’s Surrealist Collaboration with David Ives

Eric Grant

Editor’s note: Since the printing of this article, Sondheim is reportedly no longer collaborating with David Ives on the project.  Back in the summer of 2016 a report that Stephen Sondheim’s new musical had received a secret reading at The Public Theater generated speculation in the theater community that we could be witnessing a new […]

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September 27, 2018

The Ups and Downs of ‘Send in the Clowns’

By Chris Slattery

Isn’t it rich? His career arc stretches from writing the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy when he was in his late twenties to mentoring Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda in his seventies and eighties. His oeuvre encompasses the very best of modern musical theater: Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Merrily […]

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September 21, 2018

A Gender-Bending Company

By Ellyn Wexler

Stephen Sondheim and Company director Marianne Elliott discuss the new production. Since the original 1970 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company won six Tony Awards, the musical comedy about life, love and marriage has been staged as written time after time through the years. Director Marianne Elliott’s revival is a game changer. […]

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August 2, 2018

Nicely Done, Schmuck

by Jason Robert Brown

The following article first appeared in The Sondheim Review in Summer 2010 as part of the Following Sondheim series which focused on Sondheim’s impact on the next generation of musical writers. Since the dawn of time, Man has told tales of horror and devastation. Perhaps they serve as a warning. Perhaps they draw a community […]

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July 11, 2018

“Some Kind of Obsession”

By Maegan Clearwood

At 11 years old and in the wake of his parents’ bitter divorce, Manhattan native Stephen Sondheim was shuffled off to live with his mother in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. This dark period in the burgeoning musician’s life changed course when he befriended Jimmy Hammerstein, the son of the legendary Broadway composer (and soon-to-be mentor to Sondheim), […]

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April 6, 2018

Sondheim’s Emotional Striptease

Stuart J. Hecht

The orchestra plays as the lights slowly rise. The music is military, heavy with marching drums. Two figures are in a bed making love; they are nude. The music builds to a crescendo matching the lovemaking. The couple is attractive, as are their voices—his baritone to her soprano. Thus starts the musical Passion. The two […]

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Filed Under: Feature Tagged With: Gypsy, Passion

March 28, 2018

Send in the Clones

Lynn Ahrens

The following article first appeared in The Sondheim Review in Spring 2010 as part of the Following Sondheim series which focused on Sondheim’s impact on the next generation of musical writers. Click here to read Stephen Flaherty’s companion piece, More to Hear. I suspect that if you swabbed the inside of most theatrical lyricists’ mouths […]

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March 28, 2018

More to Hear

Stephen Flaherty

The following article first appeared in The Sondheim Review in Spring 2010 as part of the Following Sondheim series which focused on Sondheim’s impact on the next generation of musical writers. Click here to read Lynn Ahrens’s companion piece, Send in the Clones. I moved to New York City on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1982, with […]

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