Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist.

 Personal life 
Sondheim was born into a JewishJ is for Jewish dramatists family in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was openly gay.Another opening, another show In 2017, he married Jeffrey Romley.

Sondheim died on November 26, 2021 from heart disease in Roxbury, Connecticut at the age of 91.

 Career 
Sondheim wrote the words for songs in Gypsy and West Side Story. Of American composers still living, he had won the most awards. He won:
Multiple Grammy Awards
9 Tony Awards (more than any other composer)
A Lifetime Achievement Tony
An Academy Award
A Pulitzer Prize.

Sondheim wrote both the music and the words to his musicals.

Many critics like his work, but some people do not like it. Sweeney Todd is very different from the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

 Some of Sondheim's musicals 
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Follies
A Little Night Music
Sunday in the Park with George
Into The Woods
Sweeney Todd

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