stephen sondheim

Four performances of Phil Geoffrey Bond's My Queer Youth will be presented at the Laurie Beechman Theatre beginning March 19. Tony Award winner Michele Pawk directs Bond in his self-penned solo show. Performance dates are March 19, 21, 26 and 28 at 7 PM.  

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage. This month we celebrate the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim by speaking with several of the women most associated with the work of the award-winning composer-lyricist. This week we chat with Tony Award winner Barbara Cook , who received a Tony nomination for her theatrical concert Mostly Sondheim , and who is currently back on Broadway in the new musical production Sondheim on Sondheim .

Finally, you know, when we got into it   -Barbara Cook

 

The Nonesuch Records and PS Classics cast recording of the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music is just weeks away from waltzing into the hands of theatre fans. The two-disc recording boasts extended musical scenes and dialogue from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's heady adult musical that stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and Alexander Hanson. Fans can currently listen to the complete tracks of "You Must Meet My Wife" and "Now" by visiting the Nonesuch Records website and selecting M  

"Something familiar...something peculiar," promises the opening song. Indeed so, and in a very good way. Following his Broadway breakthrough as a lyricist for "Gypsy" and "West Side Story," Stephen Sondheim made his debut as a composer-lyricist in 1962 with this madcap vaudevillian farce, adapted by co-librettists Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart from the comedies of Plautus of ancient Rome. The show endures as a side-splitting and melodic lark.  

Kate Baldwin, Len Cariou, John Cudia, Cheyenne Jackson and Kelli O'Hara will perform as part of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Monte Cristo Award gala honoring Tony Award-winning veteran director Harold Prince. As previously reported, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim will present Prince with the honor on April 5 at Bridgewaters in New York City. Prince, who has earned a record-breaking 21 Tony Awards in his more-than-60-year career, earned six of his Tony honors from Sondheim musicals. Marc Bru  

1927 Birthday of composer John Kander, who will compose scores for Broadway's Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Woman of the Year, Zorba and other musicals. Zero Mostel, Jo Van Fleet and Paul Mann are the Viennese refugees struggling to get to America. Peter Glenville directs Vivian Leigh and Jean-Pierre Aumont.  

Even if you've seen the movie or the stage rendition of "West Side Story," Encinal High School's production will be an entirely new experience. The show's accompaniment will be symphonic. The actors have surprisingly beautiful voices.  

It is not given to many: the chance to murder and make human meat pies against a classic Stephen Sondheim musical score. One barber, wronged by a corrupt judge in 19th-century London, does just that as he sings marvelously nasty lyrics, slashes throats and sells the telltale bodies as pie filling with the help of a warped baker. It's the darkly comic and bizarre revenge tale "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."  

Signature Theatre will celebrate the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim with a free weekend of events March 20-21. Sondheim, whose works have been performed many times by Signature through the years, turns 80 on March 22. He is known for works that include "Sweeney Todd" (currently being performed at the theater), "Company," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Sunday in the Park With George" "A Little Night Music" and more.