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Stephen Sondheim: the man who transformed Musical Theatre
Poor Vincent Van Gogh. He died having sold precisely one painting during his lifetime.
Stephen sondheim bernard herrmann biography
Mercifully, the only list of major 20th-century artists upon which the name Stephen Sondheim does not appear is ‘Unappreciated In His Lifetime’.
From the evening on 11 March when an all-star cast gathered to celebrate his already unique contribution to Musical Theatre in Sondheim: A Musical Tribute – a concert happily recorded and released – his position as an artist has been secure.
As the years rolled along, it became increasingly clear that he wasn’t just an unusually highly skilled composer and lyricist, he was a dramatist. As much as contemporaries like Edward Albee or, a little later, August Wilson and David Mamet, he was one of America’s most singular and important theatrical voices.
It’s just that his voice was also musical.
In the reactionary world of Broadway commercial theatre, Sondheim was a radical
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