Stephen Sondheim Essentials

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Editors' Notes Stephen Sondheim modernized musical theatre by emphasizing the musicality of witty, language-loving conversation. After supplying lyrics to Leonard Bernstein's songs for West Side Story in 1957, Sondheim captured the emotional chaos of urban life in originals like "Another Hundred People" (Company) and tapped deep reservoirs of humanism in "No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods. Sondheim's also a great experimentalist. His love of Steve Reich's minimalism informs "Someone in a Tree" (Pacific Overtures), while unconventional harmonies pepper his self-described "black operetta," Sweeney Todd.
Rita Moreno, William Bramley, Didier Deutsch, Marni Nixon, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Jim Bryant
West Side Story (1961 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
4:59
 
Zero Mostel
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (Original Broadway Cast)
5:00
 
By Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim Johnny Rabe
The Lights of Broadway
6:27
 
Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon
West Side Story (1961 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2:04
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Original Broadway Cast Ensemble, Len Cariou
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
3:34
 
Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods Ensemble, Tom Aldredge
Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
11:58
 
Sondheim On Sondheim Company
Sondheim on Sondheim (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
5:49
 
Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim Sings, Vol. I (1962-72)
3:12
 
Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson
Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
7:17
 
Michael Cerveris, James Barbour, Becky Ann Baker, Denis O'Hare, Jeffrey Kuhn, Mario Cantone, Alexander Gemignani, Mary Catherine Garrison, Neil Patrick Harris
Assassins (The 2004 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
2:32
 
2006 Broadway Revival Cast
Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
5:54
 
Steven Jacob, Cris Groenendaal, Bob Gunton, George Hearn
A Stephen Sondheim Evening
8:57
 
2006 Broadway Revival Cast
Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
3:51
 
Jan Maxwell, Gentlemen Of The Ensemble
Follies (New Broadway Cast Recording)
4:33
 
A Little Night Music Ensemble
A Little Night Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
6:40
 
Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Cerveris, Brandon Wardell
Assassins (The 2004 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
8:34
 
2006 Broadway Revival Cast
Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
4:17
 
Paul Gemignani, Carol Burnett, New York Philharmonic
The Essential Stephen Sondheim
5:50
 
Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon, Natalie Wood, Bert Michaels, Johnny Green
West Side Story (1961 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
6:40
 
2006 Broadway Revival Cast
Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
5:06
 
Chip Zien, Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland
Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
3:57
 
2006 Broadway Revival Cast
Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
4:03
 
Mandy Patinkin
Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
3:21
 
Millicent Martin, David Kernan
Side By Side By Sondheim (Original London Cast Recording)
3:45
 
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