Question: Joy Franz, is an American actress and singer, born in which year, best known for her stage work, she played Susan in the original 1972 West End production of company, by Stephen Sondheim, an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre?

full_context: Document 1: Sheldon Harnick: Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof".
Document 2: Joy Franz: Joy Franz (born June 13, 1941, Modesto, California) is an American actress and singer, best known for her stage work. She played Susan in the original 1972 West End production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company", and the role of Cinderella's Stepmother in the original 1987 Broadway production of Sondheim's "Into the Woods".
Document 3: The Bridge Stage of the Arts: The Bridge Stage of the Arts, Inc. (The Bridge) is an American theater company based in New York City. It was incorporated by its Artistic Director, Avra Petrides, in 1980; and has produced American/International music- theater festivals in the South of France (Languedoc-Roussillon region) with American musical-theater artists such as Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist and librettist of "My Fair Lady", and Betty Comden and Adolph Green screenwriters and lyricists of "Singin' In The Rain." These artists performed and also gave master classes on musical theater to lyricists, librettists, playwrights, composers, directors, and performers from all over the world. In Lower Manhattan The Bridge has presented "Performance-Forums" in which theater artists collaborate on productions with astrophysicists, philosophers, architects and others working in a variety of disciplines. Also, in Lower Manhattan, The Bridge produced "Hart & Hammerstein Centennial Plus One" which re-introduced "Castle Clinton" as a noteworthy performance space.
Document 4: West Side Story: West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet".
Document 5: Elizabeth Franz: Elizabeth Franz (born June 18, 1941) is an American stage and television actress.
Document 6: Finishing the Hat: Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes is a book by American musical theatre composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The book contains Sondheim's lyrics from his first professionally staged show, "Saturday Night" (1954) through "West Side Story", "", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Anyone Can Whistle", "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Company", "Follies", "A Little Night Music", "The Frogs", "Pacific Overtures", "", and ending with "Merrily We Roll Along" (1981), stopping just short of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Sunday in the Park with George" (1984) which contains the song from which the title of the book is taken.
Document 7: Jenny Wiley Theatre: Jenny Wiley Theatre is a non-profit organization that puts on productions of classic Broadway musicals, comedies, historical dramas and holiday productions at both the Jenny Wiley Amphitheatre, located within the Jenny Wiley State Resort Park, and surrounding venues. The theater's first musical was "South Pacific", performed in the summer of 1965. Some theater alumni have later achieved success in television, film and national theater. These include: Michael Cerveris, who won two Tony awards, one for his performance in "Tommy" in 1994, and one for his performance in "Assassins" on Broadway; Christine Johnson, Nettie Fowler in the original Broadway cast of "Carousel"; Sharon Lawrence from ABC's "NYPD Blue" and "Desperate Housewives"; James Barbour, who played the Beast in Disney's Broadway production of "Beauty and the Beast" and was Tony-nominated for his role as Mr. Rochester in the musical, "Jane Eyre"; Jim Varney, "Ernest Goes to Camp"; Tommy Kirk, "Old Yeller"; Ron Palillo, "Welcome Back, Kotter"; Eileen Bittman Barnett, "Days of Our Lives"; Cynthia Bostick, "As the World Turns"; Lawrence Leritz, "Broadway and Beyond"; Jeff Silbar, composer of "The Wind Beneath My Wings"; Randy Jones of the Village People singing group; and Paige Davis, host of TLC's "Trading Spaces".
Document 8: Joyce Castle: Joyce Castle (born Lillian Joyce Malicky, on January 17, 1939, in Beaumont, Texas) is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active opera career for the last four decades. She earned degrees in music from The University of Kansas and the Eastman School of Music. She made her professional opera debut in 1970 at the San Francisco Opera as Siebel in Charles Gounod's "Faust". In 1984 she became the first woman to portray Mrs. Lovett in an operatic staged production of at the Houston Grand Opera. She spent seven years performing with opera companies in France during the 1970s, after which her career has mainly been spent performing with opera companies throughout the United States. She has sung leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera for nine seasons and has also appeared frequently at the New York City Opera. Her career was recently profiled in the June 2010 issue of "Opera News". She currently teaches on the voice faculty of the University of Kansas.
Document 9: Oscar Hammerstein II: Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
Document 10: Glynis Johns: Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a retired Welsh stage, television and film actress, dancer, pianist, and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa of Welsh origin, she is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music" on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture box office smash "Mary Poppins." In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including "Send in the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers. She was nominated for an Oscar for her work in the 1960 film "The Sundowners".
Document 11: Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Joshua Sondheim ( ; born March 22, 1930) is 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 (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a 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 Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Company", "Follies", "A Little Night Music", "Pacific Overtures", "", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Into the Woods", "Assassins", and "Passion". He also wrote the lyrics for "West Side Story" and "Gypsy".
Document 12: Jonathan Tunick: Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938, New York City) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, one of twelve people to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards. He is best known for his work with Stephen Sondheim, starting in 1970 with "Company" and continuing to the present day.
Document 13: The Sondheim Review: The Sondheim Review is a quarterly magazine published in Chicago, United States, since 1994 and, per its tagline, is "Dedicated to the work of the Musical Theatre's foremost composer and lyricist," Stephen Sondheim. It is edited by Cincinnati theatre critic Rick Pender, and its editorial board includes theatre columnist John Olson and drama critic Eric Grode. Sondheim himself has written occasional short items for the magazine, although he is not formally connected with the magazine in any way.
Document 14: Stephen Flaherty: Stephen Flaherty (born September 18, 1960) is an American composer of musical theatre. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/bookwriter Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway musicals "Once on This Island", which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, "Seussical", which was nominated for the Grammy Award, and "Ragtime", which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score. Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards with Lynn Ahrens for his songs and song score for the animated film musical "Anastasia".
Document 15: Loretta Di Franco: Loretta Di Franco is an American operatic soprano who is chiefly known for her more than 900 performances at the Metropolitan Opera from 1961-1995. Originally a member of the Met's opera chorus, she eventually was promoted to singing small comprimario roles beginning with one of the pages in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and the peasant girl in "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1961. She went on to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1965 which led to her first substantial role, Chloe in "The Queen of Spades". She continued to appear annually at the Met for the next 30 years, performing both leading and supporting roles. Some of the parts she performed at the Met included Annina in "La traviata", both the Aunt and Barena in Janáček's "Jenůfa", Barbarina and Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro", Berta in "The Barber of Seville", Countess Ceprano in "Rigoletto", the Dew Fairy and the Sandman in "Hansel and Gretel", Feklusa in "Káťa Kabanová", the First Lady in "The Magic Flute", the Flower Seller in Britten's "Death in Venice", Frasquita in "Carmen", Gerhilde in "Die Walküre", Giannetta in "L'elisir d'amore", Helen in "Mourning Becomes Electra", Ines in "Il trovatore", Jouvenot in "Adriana Lecouvreur", Kate Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly", Laura in "Luisa Miller", Lauretta in "Gianni Schichi", Lisa in "La sonnambula", Marianne in "Der Rosenkavalier", Marthe in "Faust", Musetta in "La bohème", Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", Samaritana in "Francesca da Rimini", Woglinde in both "Das Rheingold" and "Götterdämmerung", Xenia in "Boris Godunov", Zerlina in "Don Giovanni", and title role in "Lucia di Lammermoor". In 1991 she created the role of the Woman with Child in the world premiere of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles".
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