Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim (Music and Lyrics, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, 1930-2021) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into The Woods, Assassins, Passion, Road Show, and Here We Are, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear A Waltz?, and additional lyrics for Candide. Side By Side By Sondheim, Marry Me A Little, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow, Putting It Together, Moving On, Sondheim On Sondheim, and Old Friends are anthologies of his work as composer and lyricist. For films, he composed the scores of Stavisky, co-composed the score for Reds, and wrote songs for Dick Tracy. He wrote songs for the television production Evening Primrose, co-authored the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder, and provided incidental music for the plays The Girls of Summer, Invitation To A March, Twigs, and The Enclave. Sondheim won the Tony Award for Best Score for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Passion, all of which also won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, as did Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George, the latter also receiving the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.