Today is Stephen Sondheim's birthday. He has been describe as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theatre."
He has written some of my favorite musicals of all time. I just pulled the following list of his works off of his website:
Alphabetical View
All That Glitters
Anyone Can Whistle
Assassins
Being Alive
The Birdcage
By Bernstein
By George
Candide
A Celebration
A Celebration At Carnegie Hall
Climb High
Company
Dick Tracy
The Doctor Is Out
Do I Hear a Waltz?
The Enclave
Evening Primrose
The Exception and the Rule
Follies
The Frogs
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Gold!
Getting Away With Murder
The Girls of Summer
Gypsy
Happily Ever After
Hey, Love
High Tor
I Believe In You
Illya Darling
In an Early Winter
Into the Woods
Invitation to a March
The Jet-Propelled Couch
The Lady or the Tiger?
The Last of Sheila
The Last Resorts
The Last Word
Library of Congress Concert
A Little Night Music
The Mad Show
The Man with the Squeaky Shoes
Marry Me a Little
Mary Poppins
Merrily We Roll Along
Moving On
A Musical Tribute
Pacific Overtures
Passion
Passionella
Phinney's Rainbow
A Pray by Blecht
Putting it Together
The Race To Urga
Reds
Ring Round the Moon
Saturday Night
The Seven Percent Solution
Side by Side by Sondheim
Singing Out Loud
Sondheim Tonight
Stavisky
A Stephen Sondheim Evening
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Blvd.
Sweeney Todd
The Thing of It Is
Topper
Twigs
West Side Story
Where To From Here
Wise Guys
You're Gonna Love Tomorrow
Wow, that's a list, huh?
Thanks, Stephen Sondheim, for the many hours of listening pleasure you have given me. And for the cool idea for a letterboxing series. Coming to a "Woods" near you soon!
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March 22 is also Andrew Lloyd Webber's birthday. He turned 62.
He has written the following:
The Likes of Us (1965)
Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968)
Jesus Christ Superstar(1970)
Jeeves (1975)
Evita (1976)
Tell Me on a Sunday (1979)
Cats (1981)
Song and Dance (1982)
Starlight Express (1984)
The Phantom of the Opera (1986)
Aspects of Love (1989)
Sunset Boulevard (1993)
Whistle Down the Wind (1996)
The Beautiful Game (2000)
Bombay Dreams (2002)
The Woman in White (2004)
The Sound of Music (2006)
Phantom: Love Never Dies (2010)
He also wrote a Requiem Mass, which was performed by Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Winchester Cathedral Choir. He, too, has brought many hours of listening pleasure. In addition, it has been great to see some of his musicals in the theater and on the screen.
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