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    Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist known for musical theater. He grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania, where he began writing and playing music. He mentored under Oscar Hammerstein II and wrote for television and theater productions. His big break came from writing the lyrics for West Side Story. He went on to write lyrics for many other Broadway hits like Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods. Sondheim has won numerous awards including 7 Tonys, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize for his significant contributions to musical theater over his career.

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    Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist known for musical theater. He grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania, where he began writing and playing music. He mentored under Oscar Hammerstein II and wrote for television and theater productions. His big break came from writing the lyrics for West Side Story. He went on to write lyrics for many other Broadway hits like Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods. Sondheim has won numerous awards including 7 Tonys, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize for his significant contributions to musical theater over his career.

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    Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist known for musical theater. He grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania, where he began writing and playing music. He mentored under Oscar Hammerstein II and wrote for television and theater productions. His big break came from writing the lyrics for West Side Story. He went on to write lyrics for many other Broadway hits like Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods. Sondheim has won numerous awards including 7 Tonys, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize for his significant contributions to musical theater over his career.

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    Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist known for musical theater. He grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania, where he began writing and playing music. He mentored under Oscar Hammerstein II and wrote for television and theater productions. His big break came from writing the lyrics for West Side Story. He went on to write lyrics for many other Broadway hits like Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods. Sondheim has won numerous awards including 7 Tonys, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize for his significant contributions to musical theater over his career.

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    Stephen Sondheim

    By: Bridget Mastrorilli


    Stephen Sondheim; Early Life

    ➢ Born on March 22, 1930 in NYC


    ○ To Herbert and Janet Sondheim
    ➢ Parents worked in garment industry;
    ○ Mother a designer, father a dress manufacturer
    ➢ They divorced in 1942
    ○ moved with his mother to Doylestown, Pennsylvania
    ➢ Began playing piano, organ, and songwriting at the George
    School
    Continued,
    ➢ Became friends with Oscar Hammerstein II’s son
    ○ Hammerstein served as his surrogate father and mentor
    ➢ In his teens wrote By George! And worked as an assistant on Rogers and
    Hammerstein's 1947’s Allegro
    ➢ Attended Williams College, thinking he would major in math
    ○ Majored in Music and studied with composer Milton Babbitt
    ➢ Graduated in 1950 and moved to NYC
    ➢ Worked in Los angeles writing scripts for TV series
    ○ Topper and Last Word
    Big Break
    ➢ His acquaintance Arthur Laurents introduced him to
    Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, who were looking
    for a lyricist for West Side Story.
    ➢ The rest is history, he became part of one of Broadways
    biggest successes.
    ➢ Following up with a collaboration of composer Jule Styne to
    write Gypsy, Starring Ethel Merman
    Career
    Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Marry Me a Little (1980)
    Assassins (1990) Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
    Candide (1956) Pacific Overtures (1976)
    Company (1970) Passion (1994)
    Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965) Putting It Together (1992)
    Evening Primrose (1966) Road Show (Bounce) (1997)
    Follies (1971) Saturday Night (1997)
    The Frogs (1974) Side By Side By Sondheim (1976)
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way.. (1962) Sondheim on Sondheim (2010)
    Gypsy (1959) Sunday In the Park with George (1984)
    Into the Woods (1987) Sweeney Todd (1979)
    A Little Night Music (1973) West Side Story (1957)
    Film Work
    ➢ Original film work;
    ○ The Birdcage
    ○ Dick Tracy
    ○ The Last of Sheila
    ○ Reds
    ○ The Seven-Per-cent Solution
    ○ Stavisky
    ➢ Film Adaptations;
    ○ A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum
    ○ Gypsy
    ○ A Little Night Music
    ○ Sweeney Todd
    ○ West Side Story
    ○ Into the Woods
    Awards
    ➢ Has won 7 tonys, nominated 11 times

    ➢ Has won Grammys, Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, A Pulitzer
    prize of drama, Kennedy Centers Honors and Academy Awards.

    ➢ Was the Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 for being a
    “Critically acclaimed writer whose body of work helps us understand and
    interpret the human condition.”
    “Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

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