2 PLAYBILL LOT sondheim PACIFIC OVERTURES Boston Out of Town / Roundabout frz

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2 PLAYBILL LOT
Playbill
out of town run in Bostion; plus a flyer for that Boston show;
also the Roundabout revival with BD Wong
light wear / very good condition / original owner
happy to consider a best offer
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Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim
c.
1976
Born
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
March 22, 1930
New York City, U.S.
Died
November 26, 2021 (aged 91)
Roxbury, Connecticut
, U.S.
Alma mater
Williams College
Occupation
Composer
lyricist
Years active
1952–2021
Spouse(s)
Jeffrey Romley
​
(
m.
2017)
​
Awards
Full list
Musical career
Genres
Musical theater
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Among the most important figures in 20th-century
musical theater
, Sondheim was praised for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication". His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience" with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life.
Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for
West Side Story
(1957) and
Gypsy
(1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(1962),
Company
(1970),
Follies
(1971),
A Little Night Music
(1973),
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(1979),
Merrily We Roll Along
(1981),
Sunday in the Park with George
(1984), and
Into the Woods
(1987).
Sondheim's accolades include eight
Tony Awards
(including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008),
[1]
an
Academy Award
, eight
Grammy Awards
, a
Pulitzer Prize
, a
Laurence Olivier Award
, and a 2015
Presidential Medal of Freedom
. He has a theater named for him both on
Broadway
and in
the West End of London
. Sondheim wrote film music, contributing "Goodbye for Now" for
Warren Beatty
's
Reds
(1981). He wrote five songs for 1990's
Dick Tracy
, including "
Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)
", sung in the film by
Madonna
, which won the
Academy Award for Best Original Song
. Film adaptations of Sondheim's work include
West Side Story
(1961),
Gypsy
(1962),
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(1966),
A Little Night Music
(1977),
Gypsy
(1993),
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(2007),
Into the Woods
(2014),
West Side Story
(2021), and
Merrily We Roll Along
(TBD).