Cheers! Sondheim on Random

Turning 91 years old come March 22, 2021...

"Broadway's Music Man" Stephen Sondheim. 

Winner of an Oscar, 8 Tony Awards, 8 Grammy Awards, a Pultizer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Annnnd 2 theatres have been renamed for him: Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway and the Queen's Theatre in the West End. Not too shabby!

And a few pics from his Broadway successes (and errant flops!)...

above, Company (1970),

with Larry Kurt as Bobbie (replacing Dean Jones).

Follies (1971)... with Gene Nelson, Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins,

John McMartin, and Yvonne DeCarlo.

At the 1985 Lincoln Center concert version of Follies,

with George Hearn, Lee Remick, Barbara Cook, and Mandy Patinkin.

Again with Mandy, and Bernadette Peters, circa their working together on

Sunday In The Park With George (1984).

 

With Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury,

on opening night of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1979).

Below, with the cast and creative team for 

Merrily We Roll Along (1981),

including George Furth (book) and Hal Prince (direction),

and below them, Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, and Lonny Price.

With Sab Shimono on the opening night of 

Pacific Overtures (1976)

And not to forget: 

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum (1962),

A Little Night Music (1973)

Into The Woods (1987)

Passion (1994)

Assassins (1990)

Anyone Can Whistle (1964)

Lyric writing for West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear A Waltz?

And he's "Still Here"... Huzzah!