Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, a person of the most influential musical theater figures of the 20th Century, died Friday at the age of 91, in accordance to The New York Situations.
Sondheim’s loss of life was verified by attorney and good friend F. Richard Pappas, who explained his passing as unexpected. He experienced just celebrated Thanksgiving with close friends at his Roxbury, Conn. residence on Thursday.
Potentially not because April 23rd of 1616 [when William Shakespeare died] has theater shed these types of a innovative voice, Tony Award nominee Josh Gad prompt on Twitter. Thank you Mr. Sondheim for your Demon Barber, some Evening Songs, a Sunday in the Park, Enterprise, entertaining at a Discussion board, a vacation Into the Woods and telling us a West Facet Tale. RIP.
Thank the Lord that Sondheim lived to be 91 a long time aged so he experienced the time to generate these types of great audio and Wonderful lyrics! mentioned EGOT winner Barbra Streisand on Twitter. May possibly he Relaxation In Peace.
Relaxation In Peace, Stephen Sondheim, and thank you for your huge contributions to musical theater, tweeted Tony winner Lea Salonga. We shall be singing your tunes permanently.
In addition to his 8 Tonys, Sondheim was the receiver of 7 Grammys, an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Flexibility. His most perfectly-regarded is effective contain A Amusing Matter Occurred on the Way to the Discussion board (1962), Enterprise (1970), Follies (1971), A Tiny Evening Songs (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Avenue (1979), Sunday in the Park With George (1984) and Into the Woods (1987). He also furnished lyrics for West Facet Tale (1957) and Gypsy (1959).
One particular of his earliest positions was creating for tv. He is credited on 6 episodes of the CBS comedy Topper, which ran for two seasons concerning 1953 and 1955. It gained a Primetime Emmy nomination for Most effective Predicament Comedy in 1954.
In 2007, Sondheim voiced a fictionalized variation of himself in a Year 18 episode of The Simpsons.
Neil Gaiman shared on Twitter that Sondheim wrote me a great authorization letter to use ‘Old Friends’ [from Merrily We Roll Along] in American Gods. I prevented assembly him (unsuccessful only after) and refused supper since I failed to have quite a few heroes. Now I have acquired a person significantly less. Thank you Stephen Sondheim so a lot.
At the top of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Oscar winner Meryl Streep joined The Fantastic Battle‘s Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald for an at-residence rendition of Enterprise‘s The Women Who Lunch, as component of Choose Me to the Environment: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration benefiting ASTEP (Artists Striving to Conclude Poverty). Check out down below:
Sondheim built his closing tv look in September, when he appeared as a visitor on CBS’ The Late Clearly show With Stephen Colbert: