Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheimis an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His best-known works as composer and lyricist include A Funny...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
Gotta watch out for directors.
I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup...
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.
My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.
I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.
When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.