Stephen Sondheim

After a long and successful lifetime of innovating the American Musical Theater as we know it, Sondheim is still influencing the community of theatre and will be celebrating his 90th birthday in March of 2020.

On Sondheim's 80th birthday in 2010, he received the honor of having a theater renamed after him. His response?

"I'm deeply embarrassed. Thrilled, but deeply embarrassed. I've always hated my last name. It just doesn't sing. I mean, it's not Belasco. And it's not Rodgers and it's not Simon. And it's not Wilson. It just doesn't sing. It sings better than Schoenfeld and Jacobs. But it just doesn't sing."

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Learn more about the incredible mind behind the success by exploring the pages below!