Wednesday, March 22, 2023

March 22 - Stephen Sondheim (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for March 22nd may be found here: Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd Webber (2019), Gerard Hoffnung.(2020), Stephen Sondheim (2021), and Stephen Sondheim (2023)

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Stephen Sondheim (22 March 1930 – 26 November 2021) was an American composer and lyricist.  

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finishing a…

Stephen Sondheim’s long-in-the-works Luis Buñuel musical, which he described as unfinished just days before his death, will be staged in New York this fall... --- Michael Paulson, New York Times. March 16, 2023

When you’re writing a show in old age

And you die in its formative stage,

Will producers diminish it

In efforts to finish it,

Or leave it as is on the page?

 

 

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