Sondheim on Sondheim Tickets

Sondheim on Sondheim is a celebration of Steven Sondheim, one of the most legendary composers and lyricists in theater history. Just a few of the plays he has written music and lyrics for include West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Into the Woods, and more.

Celebrating Sondheim

Steven Sondheim learned under the wing of Oscar Hammerstein II, and Steven’s talent flourished with the great composer’s help. He took Sondheim in, taught him how to improve his work, and it was an incredible schooling Sondheim was incredibly lucky to get as his talent was first developing.

Sondheim also got an incredible big break after several years of struggle, writing the lyrics for West Side Story, one of musical theater’s most endearing classics to this day. Then Sondheim wrote the lyrics for Gypsy, then wrote the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Sondheim Through Musical History

Sondheim’s music is complex, unconventional, and he has never shied away from writing complicated stage plays. Sondheim on Sondheim not only includes many great Sondheim songs, but it also includes pre-recorded narration by Sondheim. It is a show that shows the musical and personal journey of Sondheim that as show creator James Lapine says “in which who he is and how he got there comes in to focus.”

Sondheim on Sondheim doesn’t just include the songs everyone knows from Sondheim’s career, but also includes lesser known music, and songs that go all the way back to when he first started composing in school, like his first play, By George, which was a comedy about attending George School.

Other music included in Sondheim on Sondheim include the classics “Comedy Tonight” from Forum, “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story and “Like Everybody Else,” which was cut from the original production, “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music, “Epiphany” from Sweeney Todd, “Ever After” from Into the Woods, and many more. In addition to Sondheim’s best known songs, Sondheim on Sondheim also includes songs that were cut from his best known, and more obscure, works.

Sondheim Still Stands

The New York Times has called Sondheim on Sondheim “a genial, multi-media commemorative scrapbook on the life, times and career” of the man,” and also noted, “In the world of American musicals he is indisputably the best, brightest and most influential talent to emerge during the last half-century.

“Even when his shows have been commercial flops, they are studied, revered and eventually reincarnated to critical hosannas,” the New York Times continued. “No other songwriter to date has challenged his eminence, and it seems unlikely that anyone will in his lifetime.”

Steven Sondheim has won eight Tony awards, a record for a composer, including a Lifetime Achievement Tony, eight Grammy awards, seven Drama Desk awards, a Pulitzer Prize for his play Sunday in the Park With George, a Kennedy Center honor, and an Academy Award for the song “(Sooner or Later) I Always Get My Man” for the film Dick Tracy.