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Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most famous work includes A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). He is also known for writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959).

Major works

Year	Title	Role	Music	Lyrics	Ref.
1954	Saturday Night	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1957	West Side Story	Lyrics	Leonard Bernstein	Stephen Sondheim
1959	Gypsy	Lyrics	Jule Styne	Stephen Sondheim
1962	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1964	Anyone Can Whistle	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1965	Do I Hear a Waltz?	Lyrics	Richard Rodgers	Stephen Sondheim
1966	Evening Primrose	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1970	Company	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1971	Follies	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1973	A Little Night Music	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1974	The Frogs	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim		[1]
1976	Pacific Overtures	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1979	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1981	Merrily We Roll Along	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1984	Sunday in the Park with George	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1987	Into the Woods	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1990	Assassins	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
1994	Passion	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
2008	Road Show	Music & lyrics	Stephen Sondheim

Revues and anthologies

Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Marry Me a Little (1980), Putting It Together (1993), and Sondheim on Sondheim (2010) are anthologies or revues of Sondheim's work as composer and lyricist, with songs performed in or cut from productions. Jerome Robbins' Broadway features "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" from Gypsy, "Suite of Dances" from West Side Story and "Comedy Tonight" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A new revue, Secret Sondheim ... a celebration of his lesser known work, conceived and directed by Tim McArthur, was produced at the Jermyn Street Theatre in July 2010.[2] Sondheim's "Pretty Women" and "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" are featured in The Madwoman of Central Park West.[3]

Film and TV adaptations

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1961	West Side Story	Robert Wise Jerome Robbins	Film adaptation
1962	Gypsy	Mervyn LeRoy	Film adaptation
1966	A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum	Richard Lester	Film adaptation
1966	Evening Primrose	Paul Bogart	Television adaptation
1977	A Little Night Music	Harold Prince	Film adaptation
1993	Gypsy	Emile Ardolino	Television adaptation
2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Tim Burton	Film adaptation
2014	Into the Woods	Rob Marshall	Film adaptation
2021	West Side Story	Steven Spielberg	Film adaptation
TBA	Merrily We Roll Along	Richard Linklater	Film adaptation

Other works

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	I Know My Love	Christmas carol arrangement
1955	A Mighty Man is He	"Rag Me That Mendelssohn March"
1956	Girls of Summer	Incidental music
1957	Take Five	Revue
1960	Invitation to a March	Incidental music
1962	The World of Jules Feiffer	Incidental music
1966	The Mad Show	"The Boy From…" (lyrics)
1967	Illya Darling	"I Think She Needs Me" (lyrics; unused)
1971	Twigs	"Hollywood and Vine" (music)
1973	The Enclave	Incidental music
1974	Candide	New lyrics
1975	By Bernstein	Additional lyrics	[4]
1996	Getting Away with Murder	Written with George Furth	[5]
2007	King Lear	Incidental music for Public Theater production

Film and television

Year	Title	Notes
1953	Topper	Co-writer of eleven episodes
1973	The Last of Sheila	Co-writer with Anthony Perkins
1974	June Moon	Plays the role of Maxie Schwartz on PBS television version
	Stavisky	Score (Alain Resnais film)
1976	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution	Wrote "The Madam's Song", also known as "I Never Do Anything Twice"
1981	Reds	Music for and includes "Goodbye For Now"
1990	Dick Tracy	Wrote five songs
1996	The Birdcage	Two songs for the film: "It Takes All Kinds" (unused) and "Little Dream"
2003	Camp	Cameo as himself
2007	The Simpsons	Guest appearance as himself, Episode: "Yokel Chords"
2013	Six by Sondheim	HBO documentary by James Lapine[6][7]
2016	Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened	Documentary about original Merrily We Roll Along production[8]
2021	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Vocal cameo as himself[9]
2022	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Cameo as himself (Posthumous release)

Books

Sondheim's 2010 Finishing the Hat annotates his lyrics "from productions dating 1954–1981. In addition to published and unpublished lyrics from West Side Story, Follies and Company, the tome finds Sondheim discussing his relationship with Oscar Hammerstein II and his collaborations with composers, actors and directors throughout his lengthy career".[10][11] The book, first of a two-part series, is named after a song from Sunday in the Park With George. Sondheim said, "It's going to be long. I'm not, by nature, a prose writer, but I'm literate, and I have a couple of people who are vetting it for me, whom I trust, who are excellent prose writers".[12][13] Finishing the Hat was published in October 2010. According to a New York Times review, "The lyrics under consideration here, written during a 27-year period, aren't presented as fixed and sacred paradigms, carefully removed from tissue paper for our reverent inspection. They're living, evolving, flawed organisms, still being shaped and poked and talked to by the man who created them".[14] The book was 11th on the New York Times' Hardcover Nonfiction list for November 5, 2010.[15]

Its sequel, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, was published on November 22, 2011. The book, continuing from Sunday in the Park With George (where Finishing the Hat ended), includes sections on Sondheim's work in film and television.[16]

After conducting a series of in-depth interviews with Sondheim focusing on his music, musicologist and Library of Congress curator Mark Eden Horowitz compiled them into a book entitled Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions, which was published in 2003.

References

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