She also introduced many of us to other artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell and Stephen Sondheim.
In this, his most Chekhovian of pieces, Sondheim shoves our own mortality down our throats.
Where better to mount Stephen Sondheim's fractured-fairy-tale musical than in Central Park's tree-lined amphitheater?
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Tim Minchin's riotously eclectic score skitters unpredictably from pop to jazz to semi-Sondheim to good old-fashioned razzmatazz.
Sondheim is particularly hard on Hart, believing he was, simply put, a lazy wordsmith for much of his career.
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Her recordings of music by Vernon Duke, Stephen Sondheim and Rodgers and Hart have appealed to audiences and critics alike.
What matters is not the new wrinkles but the absolute truthfulness with which Writers' Theatre tells Mr. Sondheim's timeless tale.
Even now, the vast majority of the musicians come from the classical community, with exceptions including Stephen Sondheim and Ornette Coleman.
As willing as he is to slice and dice himself, Sondheim really turns on the Vegomatic for some of his fellow lyricists.
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When I worked with Judi Dench in a production of Sondheim's 'A Little Night Music, ' it was like a course in comic timing.
Also nominated in the best musical production category are the Sheffield Crucible staging of Sondheim's Company and The Go-Between, at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Both Ball and Staunton are nominated for best performance in a musical, while the Stephen Sondheim-created show is up for best musical production.
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical charts the turbulent relationship between three friends over three decades, starting in 1980 and travelling backwards in time.
Now Classic Stage Company has given us a Doyle-directed off-Broadway version of "Passion, " the last and best of Mr. Sondheim's three collaborations with James Lapine.
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With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, the show's Broadway debut in 1994 won the Tony Award for best musical.
In May I went to Washington for the Kennedy Center's revival of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical, in which Danny Burstein and Jan Maxwell outdid themselves.
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Sondheim and Lapine have collaborated on several musicals, including "Sunday in the Park With George" and "Into the Woods, " both full of popular songs and plentiful humor.
Okay, okay, maybe it's not Stephen Sondheim, but "I Like Ike" is one of the great political songs of all time, maybe because it's not like Stephen Sondheim.
While John Doyle didn't invent this approach, it was his 2005 Broadway revival of "Sweeney Todd" that introduced many New Yorkers to the subtle joys of small-scale Sondheim.
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Lesson: be very reluctant to second-guess a master like Sondheim.
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Sondheim seems surprisingly blithe about what amounts to a slur.
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Reilly has a stronger singing voice than the stars of Sweeney Todd, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, but Tim Burton's film of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece is spellbinding anyway.
Mr. Brown's exemplary actors can thus scale their performances down to the point where you feel as though you're not hearing Mr. Sondheim's songs so much as overhearing them.
Only the very best musicals repay such intensive immersion, and seeing "Follies" in back-to-back stagings of such quality led me to wonder whether it might just be Mr. Sondheim's masterpiece.
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The big news, though, came from Chicago, where BoHo Theatre did itself proud with the first big-city production since 2003 of Adam Guettel's "Floyd Collins, " the first great post-Sondheim musical.
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Stephen Sondheim may be a Broadway baby, but most of the best revivals of his musicals have been mounted in small-to-medium-size theaters and accompanied by chamber ensembles, not budget-busting pit orchestras.
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Mr. Sondheim's iridescent harmonies have never come across so lucidly, and the fact that everybody in the cast sings exceptionally well (something that can never be taken for granted in Sondheim revivals) is continually gratifying.
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Anastasio, who was obsessed with "West Side Story" as a kid, joked that he used to love poring over old photos of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein lounging on couches as they collaborated on last-minute songs.
We cannot be comforted by any type of optimism and it is the music in particular that incites the sense of loss according to Mary Hammond, Sondheim Professor of Musical Theatre Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
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