“Every day, Steve would come along with a new song that we’d put in the show that night or the next. “They were writing it as we were rehearsing it and still writing it after we’d opened off-Broadway in 1983,” Peters recalled in a 2014 interview with The Guardian newspaper. The musical, which was inspired by the Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for drama and two Tonys. They paired on nine musicals: 1957’s West Side Story, 1962’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1970’s Company, 1971’s Follies, A Little Night Music, 1976’s Pacific Overtures, 1979’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 1981’s Merrily We Roll Along and 2003’s Bounce.Īfter parting ways with Prince in the early 1980s, Sondheim worked with playwright James Lapine, collaborating on the Pulitzer-winning Sunday in the Park With George, the 1984 Broadway production that starred Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in a story about an iconoclastic artist. Sondheim often dealt with subject matter far darker than the radiant buoyancy and uplifting tales of the typical musical, and his productions did not send audiences out of the theater smiling and humming.ĭuring his most fertile creative period, Sondheim collaborated with producer-director Hal Prince. Writing only with soft, Blackwing pencils - the brand went out of production years ago, so he bought a lifetime supply - the meticulous New Yorker delighted in wordplay, and his lyrics were lauded for their wit and intricacy.įrom his song “Now,” about a lawyer considering his options to woo his young wife, from 1973’s A Little Night Music: “Send in the Clowns,” his somberly plaintiff plea from A Little Night Music, the 1973 play inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night, has been recorded by such notable singers as Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand (and Krusty the Clown). 1 is Michael Jackson’s Thriller, with 37.) (The album with the second-most weeks at No. That marks the most weeks atop the 65-year old chart, since the list began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in March of 1956.
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The movie soundtrack to West Side Story - with lyrics by Sondheim - spent 54 weeks at No. In the late 1950s, Sondheim put words to Bernstein’s music for the original production of West Side Story (“Maria,” “America”), then collaborated with Jule Styne on Gypsy (“Everything’s Coming Up Roses”). ** Single print order can either print or save as PDF.Stephen Sondheim Remembered by Uzo Aduba, Hugh Jackman, Josh Gad and More: 'The Best There Ever Was'Ī rep for Sondheim could not be immediately reached for more information. If the icon is greyed then these notes can not be transposed. Please check "notes" icon for transpose options. * Where transpose of Just The Way You Are sheet music available ( not all our notes can be transposed) & prior to print. Be careful to transpose first then print (or save as PDF). If your desired notes are transposable, you will be able to transpose them after purchase. If you selected -1 Semitone for score originally in C, transposition into B would be made.
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