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ALBUMSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast Recording)Annaleigh Ashford, Josh Groban, Stephen Sondheim & Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2023 Broadway Cast
Albums by Stephen Sondheim
ALBUMSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast Recording)Annaleigh Ashford, Josh Groban, Stephen Sondheim & Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2023 Broadway Cast
ALBUMThe Worst Pies in London (2023 Broadway Cast Recording)Stephen Sondheim, Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford
ALBUMCompany (Original Spanish Cast Recording)Antonio Banderas & Stephen Sondheim
ALBUMInto The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording)Sara Bareilles, Stephen Sondheim & ‘Into The Woods’ 2022 Broadway Cast
ALBUMSondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions), Vol. 2Stephen Sondheim
ALBUMAssassins (The 2022 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)Stephen Sondheim
ALBUMWest Side Story (2021 Motion Picture Soundtrack)Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
ALBUMSondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions), Vol. 1Stephen Sondheim
ALBUMAnyone Can Whistle (First Complete Recording) [with Arthur Laurents]Stephen Sondheim, Maria Friedman, Julia McKenzie & John Barrowman
ALBUMLosing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever DreamStephen Sondheim
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Modernizing musical theater with a love of language.
Artist Biography
Stephen Sondheim proved that musical theater could adapt to any era. A favorite composer and lyricist of those suspicious of melodrama—and of musicals in general—the native New Yorker brought a revolutionary's spirit to Broadway, and his stylistic daring left an unmistakable stamp on everyone from Lin-Manuel Miranda to indie-pop maestro Stephin Merritt. Sondheim grew up studying the Great American Songbook masters, learning their seat-filling tricks as a precocious theater-goer in the '40s, but he was already yearning to push into new political, musical, and emotional territory when he made his own debut in the '50s. His lyrics smuggled the social dramas of the day into seemingly escapist entertainment (West Side Story), merging the slang-infused wit of city life with a love of finely wrought poetry. He had a range like no one else; his shows could be formally audacious (Assassins), emotionally wrenching (Company), or uproariously farcical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), yet his melodies were both instantly memorable and subtly radical. And his sophisticated modern standards, like "Send in the Clowns,” reached far outside Broadway’s orbit, having been endlessly reinterpreted by rockers, folkies, and soul singers. The key to his success? As Sondheim told Miranda when he was workshopping Hamilton: “Variety, variety, variety, Lin. Don’t let up for a second. Surprise us." Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, at the age of 91.
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Genre
Soundtrack