Stephen Sondheim

The Harris Theater in Chicago’s Millennium Park has announced a number of theater-related special events to be part of its 2009-2010 season, including:   Stephen Sondheim will be on hand for “An Intimate Exchange with the "Master of the Musical" on March 4, speaking with John Calloway about the state of American musical theater and reflections on his own creative process as he celebrates his 80th birthday. An audience Q&A with Sondheim will follow.   Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will appear in An Evening of Song with Chicago’s Own Nightingale on March 25, singing Broadway show tunes and standards. Celebrated pianist Lang ... Read Full Story

Gotta love Audra McDonald! Here’s “The Glamorous Life”, written especially for the film version A Little Night Music , starring Elizabeth Taylor , Lesley-Anne Down , and Diana Rigg : Since you can never get enough Audra (at least I can’t), here’s a really fun performance of the very obscure song “10,432 Sheep” from the just-as-obscure 1950 musical comedy film West Point Story , starring James Cagney , Virginia Mayo and Doris Day : Read Full Story

“Tick Tock” from Company (1993) Donna McKechnie recreates (in a shortened form) her “Tick Tock” dance, choreographed by Michael Bennett , for a Company reunion concert in 1993. Company, with a book by George Furth and music/lyrics by Stephen Sondheim , debuted on Broadway on April 26, 1970. It was among the first musicals to deal with adult problems throughout its story and music. Read Full Story

Light Opera Works doesn’t disappoint with their foray into Sondheim’s Scandinavian twilight masterpiece     A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler Light Opera Works Reviewed by Richard Millward Stephen Sondheim ’s A Little Night Music stands almost alone in the grand sweep of his works for musical theatre – though set in the perpetual twilight of a Scandinavian summer night, A Little Night Music is perhaps his lightest show. Far better known for "the shadows where, artistically at least, he has always felt most at home," in the words of NY Times critic Ben Brantley , Sondheim here takes a ... Read Full Story

Okay, this is a very, VERY odd set – can’t even fathom what it’s supposed to represent.  But nonetheless, I do really love this song: “ I Remember Sky” from Stephen Sondheim ’s Evening Primrose . And it’s always wonderful to see/hear Cleo Laine perform. Read Full Story