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2 unusual facts about Sondheim


Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Its repertoire extends to Monteverdi, Alban Berg and Sondheim, and four ballet programs at 21 performances each.

Sondheim

In 1978, the village Stetten was included into the municipality, which then joined the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft.


Alan Sondheim

Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture and Wryting.

Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), .

Andrew Lynford

More recently, Lynford directed The Cheeky Chappie, a play about the comedian Max Miller, Side By Side By Sondheim and Ken Hill's The Curse of the Werewolf at the Union Theatre in London.

Avis Bunnage

Among her other roles for Theatre Workshop were Mrs. Lovitt in Christopher Bond's play Sweeny Todd (the basis for the Sondheim musical), and the title role in a play about the music hall legend Marie Lloyd.

Burr Tillstrom

In 1978, Kukla, Burr and Ollie joined the Broadway cast of Side by Side by Sondheim, a revue of Stephen Sondheim songs.

Donna Lynne Champlin

She also performed with Len Cariou in the Simply Sondheim inaugural concert which celebrated the opening of the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts.

Eric Flynn

He originated the role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim's Company.

Finishing the Hat

Additionally Sondheim offers sidebar critiques of some of the most renowned American lyricists of the first half of the 20th century, including Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, and his own mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II.

I am Going to the Lordy

Sondheim has said that the use of the poem in the song was one of two times he has borrowed from another writer in his work, the other being lines from William Shakespeare's "Fear No More" in Cymbeline.

Jane White

She has additionally played roles in such dramas as Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts; comedies such as Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet; and musicals such as Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and the 2001 production of Sondheim's Follies, to name a small selection.

Joel Fram

At New York’s Symphony Space, he created the award-winning “New Voices” concert series and, for Stephen Sondheim’s 75th birthday, co-produced and curated the 12-hour marathon “Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim”.

King Kurt

Their second album, Big Cock, was produced by Phil Wainman and released on Polydor in 1986, which included their cover of Bernstein and Sondheim's "America" from West Side Story.

Magnormos

Also In 2010, Magnormos produced A Sondheim Triptych to celebrate the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim.

This event included one-night -only presentations of three Sondheim musicals across three consecutive Mondays: Saturday Night, Merrily We Roll Along and Anyone Can Whistle.

The first was A Sondheim Triptych in 2010 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim.

Maria Friedman

As well as other musical shows, Maria participated in Hey, Mr. Producer!, the concert celebrating the works of Sir Cameron Mackintosh, in which she sang "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "Broadway Baby," and "How Many Tears?" Similarly, she participated in Sondheim Tonight live at London's Barbican Centre, singing "Losing My Mind" (from Follies) and "More" (from the film Dick Tracy).

Side by Side

Side by Side by Sondheim, a 1976 stage show in tribute to Stephen Sondheim

Six by Sondheim

In the documentary, Sondheim himself performs along with Audra McDonald, Jeremy Jordan, Darren Criss, America Ferrera, Jackie Hoffman and Laura Osnes.


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