Stephen Sondheim
Data de nascimento:
22/03/1930
Local de nascimento:
New York City, New York, USA
Data de falecimento:
26/11/2021
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Joshua Sondheim (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), 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).
Filmes em que atuou
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The Stories of West Side Story (2022)- 7.78 ★Self
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Keeping Company with Sondheim (2022)- 9.00 ★Self
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Glass Onion: Um Mistério Knives Out (2022)- 7.06 ★Stephen Sondheim
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tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)- 7.66 ★Stephen Sondheim (voice on phone) (uncredited)
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Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years (2021)- 0.00 ★Self
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Something's Coming: West Side Story (2021)- 7.70 ★Self
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On Broadway (2019)- 8.70 ★Self (archive footage)
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Harold Prince: The Director's Life (2018)- 0.00 ★
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Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... (2016)- 7.50 ★Self
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Six by Sondheim (2013)- 7.31 ★Self / Joe
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A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy (2011)- 0.00 ★Self
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Sondheim! The Birthday Concert (2010)- 8.00 ★Self - Honoree
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd (2008)- 7.50 ★Self
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Witness to 'Reds' (2006)- 6.00 ★Self
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)- 7.00 ★Self
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West Side Memories (2003)- 0.00 ★Self
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Camp (2003)- 5.46 ★Self
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Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (1998)- 2.00 ★Self
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)- 9.00 ★Self
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Assassins: A Conversationpiece (1991)- 0.00 ★Self
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Into the Woods: A Conversationpiece (1990)- 0.00 ★Self
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Sunday in the Park with...Stephen (1990)- 0.00 ★
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Follies: In Concert (1986)- 7.00 ★Self- Composer
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Barbra Streisand (1985) Putting It Together (1985)- 10.00 ★Himself
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Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical (1980)- 0.00 ★Self
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June Moon (1974)- 0.00 ★Maxie Schwartz
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The Last of Sheila Featurette (1973)- 0.00 ★Self
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Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973)- 0.00 ★
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Original Cast Album: Company (1970)- 7.41 ★Self