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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Among the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, Sondheim was praised for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication". His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience" with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life.
Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
Sondheim's accolades include eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has a theater named for him both on Broadway and in the West End of London. Sondheim wrote film music, contributing "Goodbye for Now" for Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). He wrote five songs for 1990's Dick Tracy, including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", sung in the film by Madonna, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Film adaptations of Sondheim's work include West Side Story (1961), Gypsy (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), A Little Night Music (1977), Gypsy (1993), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into the Woods (2014), West Side Story (2021), and Merrily We Roll Along (TBD).
Filmography
all 105
Movies 91
self 42
Writer 32
TV Shows 14

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime (2022)

West Side Story (2021)

tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration (2020)

Celebrating Sondheim (2019)

On Broadway (2019)

National Theatre Live: Follies (2017)

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... (2016)

Gypsy (2015)

Into the Woods (2014)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2014)

Follies (2013)

Six by Sondheim (2013)

Merrily We Roll Along (2013)

Sunday In the Park With George (2013)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2012)

Company (2011)

Into the Woods (2011)

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert (2010)

Company: A Musical Comedy (2008)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Candide (2007)

Passion (2005)

Candide (2005)

Assassins (2004)

Candide (2003)

Camp (2003)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert (2001)

Putting It Together (2001)

Company (1996)

Passion (1996)

Sweeney Todd: El Barber Diabòlic del Carrer Fleet (1995)

Gypsy (1993)

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)

Candide (1991)

Into the Woods (1991)

New York City Opera: A Little Night Music (1990)

Dick Tracy (1990)

Sunday in the Park with... Stephen (1990)

The Simpsons (1989)

Candide (1986)

Sunday in the Park with George (1986)

Follies: In Concert (1986)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)

Reds (1981)

Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical (1980)

A Little Night Music (1977)

Pacific Overtures (1976)

Live from Lincoln Center (1976)

Stavisky... (1974)

June Moon (1974)

Great Performances (1971)

Original Cast Album: Company (1970)

Evening Primrose (1966)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Gypsy (1962)

West Side Story (1961)

Tony Awards (1956)

Candide

Merrily We Roll Along

Follies

Road Show

Merrily We Roll Along
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1930-03-22
Deathday2021-11-26 (91 years old)
Birth NameStephen Joshua Sondheim
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesNew York City · Hollywood, United States
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Society of London Theatre Special Award, Library of Congress Living Legend, Hull-Warriner Award, Grammy Trustees Award, Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, National Medal of Arts, Johnny Mercer Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kennedy Center Honors, Edgar Awards, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Praemium Imperiale, Laurence Olivier Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom
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