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    Photo Features 15 Photos Commemorating Stephen Sondheim's Birthday
    By Playbill Staff
    March 22, 2021
     
    The Tony, Oscar, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize winner was born March 22, 1930.
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    Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim celebrates his birthday March 22.

    Sondheim made his Broadway debut writing featured music for the 1957 play Girls of Summer. During his vast career, he has provided Broadway with a large catalog of work including West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, Getting Away With Murder, Putting It Together, and Assassins among others.

    Throughout his six decade career, he has earned eight Tony Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement honor in 2008, as well as eight Grammy Awards, one Academy Award, and a Pulitzer.

    15 Photos Celebrating Stephen Sondheim

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    15 Photos Celebrating Stephen Sondheim

    The Tony, Oscar, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize winner was born March 22, 1930.

    15 PHOTOS
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    Stephen Sondheim
    Friedman-Abeles/©New York Public Library
    HR - Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert - West Side Story
    Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert in a promotional photo for West Side Story.
    Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
    HR - Forum - Zero Mostel
    Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
    Friedman-Abeles / The New York Public Library
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    Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim in rehearsal for Do I Hear a Waltz?
    HR - Company - Larry Kert
    Larry Kert and company in Company.
    HR - Follies - Alexis Smith, John McMartin, Dorothy Collins, Gene Nelson
    Alexis Smith, John McMartin, Dorothy Collins, and Gene Nelson in Follies.
    HR - A Little Night Music - Johns and Cariou
    Glynis Johns and Len Cariou in A Little Night Music.
    Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
    HR - Pacific Overtures (Original Broadway Cast)
    A scene from the original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures.
    Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
    HR - Sweeney Todd - Lansbury and Cariou
    Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd.
    HR - Merrily We Roll Along - OBC
    Sally Klein, Jason Alexander, Lonny Price, Jim Walton and Ann Morrison in Merrily We Roll Along.
    Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
    HR - Sunday in the Park With George (OBC)
    A scene from the original Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George.
    Martha Swope/©Billy Rose Theatre Division, NYPL for the Performing Arts
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    Stephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, and James Lapine celebrating Sunday’s Pulitzer win outside the Booth Theatre.
    Sara Krulwich/Getty Images
    HR - Into the Woods - Original Broadway Cast
    Danielle Ferdland, Ben Wright, Kim Crosby, Chip Zien and Bernadette Peters in Into the Woods.
    Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
    HR - Passion - Jere Shea and Donna Murphy
    Jere Shea and Donna Murphy in Passion
    Joan Marcus
    HR - Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim
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