| Stephen
Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Anyone
Can Whistle (1964), Company
(1970), Follies
(1971), A
Little Night Music (1973), The
Frogs (1974), Pacific
Overtures (1976), Sweeney
Todd (1979), Merrily
We Roll Along (1981), Sunday
in the Park with George (1984), Into
the Woods (1987), Assassins
(1991), Passion
(1994) and Bounce
(2003), as well as lyrics for West
Side Story (1957), Gypsy
(1959), Do
I Hear a Waltz? (1965) and additional lyrics for Candide
(1973). Side
by Side by Sondheim (1976), Marry
Me a Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983),
Putting
it Together (1993/99) and Moving On (2001) are anthologies
of his work as composer and lyricist.
For films, he composed
the scores of “Stavisky” (1974) and co-composed
“Reds” (1981) as well as songs for “Dick Tracy”
(1990). He also wrote the songs for the television production
“Evening Primrose” (1966), co-authored the film
“The Last of Sheila” (1973) and the play Getting
Away with Murder (1996) and provided incidental music for
the plays The Girls of Summer (1956), Invitation to
a March (1961), Twigs (1971) and The Enclave
(1973). Saturday
Night (1954), his first professional musical, finally had
its New York premiere in 1999.
Mr. Sondheim has received
seven Tony Awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in
1984 for Sunday
In The Park With George. “Sooner Or Later” from
the film Dick Tracy earned him the 1999 Academy Award
for Best Song.
In 1983 Mr. Sondheim was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, which awarded him with the Gold Medal for
Music in 2006. In 1990 he was appointed the first Visiting Professor
of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. In 1996, he received
the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton, having refused
it during the George Bush Administration, and was the recipient
of a Lifetime Achievement Award in the 1993 Kennedy Center Honors.
In 1981 he founded Young
Playwrights Inc. to develop and promote the work of American
playwrights aged 18 years and younger. (For information, write
to Artistic@Youngplaywrights.org.)
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