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Nov 26, 2021
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Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim dead at 91
Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who helped American musical theater evolve beyond pure entertainment and reach new artistic heights with works such as "West Side Story," "Into the Woods" and "Sweeney Todd," died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, at the age of 91, the New York Times reported.
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Sondheim, whose eight lifetime Tony Awards surpassed the total of any other composer, started early, learning the art of musical theater when he was just a teenager from "The Sound of Music" lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
In a tweet Friday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said of Sondheim: "One of the brightest lights of Broadway is dark tonight. May he rest in peace."
Actor and singer Anna Kendrick called Sondheim's death "a devastating loss."
"Performing his work has been among the greatest privileges of my career," Kendrick added in a tweet.
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who was mentored by Sondheim, has called him musical theater's greatest lyricist.
Sondheim's most successful musicals included "Into the Woods," which opened on Broadway in 1987 and used children's fairy tales to untangle adult obsessions, the 1979 thriller "Sweeney Todd" about a murderous barber in London whose victims are served as meat pies, and 1962's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," a vaudeville-style comedy set in ancient Rome.
"I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me," Sondheim said in a 2013 interview with National Public Radio.
Several of Sondheim's hit musicals were turned into movies, including the 2014 film "Into the Woods," starring Meryl Streep, and the 2007 "Sweeney Todd" with Johnny Depp. A new film version of "West Side Story," for which Sondheim wrote the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's music, opens next month.
His songs were celebrated for their sharp wit and insight into modern life and for giving voice to complex characters, but few of them made the pop charts.
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