Stephen Sondheim

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March 22, 1930 in New York, New York, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Music, Drama

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Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American musical and film composer and lyricist, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described by Frank Rich in the The New York Times as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.

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Books by Stephen Sondheim

Average rating: 4.22 · 9,133 ratings · 312 reviews · 35 distinct works

	Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine 4.24 avg rating — 2,212 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim (Music, Lyrics), Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond (Introduction) 4.26 avg rating — 2,031 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Sunday in the Park With George by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine 4.08 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes 4.52 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Company: A Musical Comedy by Stephen Sondheim, George Furth 4.15 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Assassins by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman 4.25 avg rating — 344 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim (Composer), Hugh Wheeler, Jonathan Tunick (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim, Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove 3.83 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1961 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany 4.29 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Passion by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine 3.84 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Series by Stephen Sondheim

The Hat Box (2 books)
by Stephen Sondheim

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“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
― Stephen Sondheim

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“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
― Stephen Sondheim

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“They all deserve to die.
Even you, Mrs. Lovett
Even I.

Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death would be relief.”
― Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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