/ 29 November 2021

Vale Stephen Sondheim

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

The titan of Broadway died suddenly at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut at 91yo. It’s hard to overstate Sondheim’s contribution with the New York Times describing him as “the theatre’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century, if not its most popular.” The Tony, Grammy, Oscar and Pulitzer winner wrote the music and words for heaps of musicals, including West Side Story, which is about to be back in circulation with a film directed by Steven Spielberg to open in December. Last year, COVID restrictions sent his 90th birthday celebrations online, and Christine Baranski, Audra McDonald (both from The Good Fight), and Meryl Streep (from OMG so many great things) downed booze while singing The Ladies Who Lunch to mark the occasion. Over the weekend, Sondheim was remembered as someone who “fundamentally shifts an entire art form,” tweeted High Jackman.

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