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The man who wrote the lyrics to WEST SIDE STORY died at the age of 91.
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A true legend.
And that's the way to go – Thanksgiving dinner with friends, then die suddenly the next day at 91.
With a couple of exceptions, not a film composer (at least not of the type we celebrate here), but every human should know his work.
So much to choose from, but I will start modestly with Kritzerland's Evening Primrose and remember ... (By the way, I see it is still available).
NK
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West Side Story was my first exposure to Sondheim in general and I have to say I like some of the more popular stuff he’s done like Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods (I still need to give some of his other musicals a look). Only last month, I listened to the original cast album of Sweeney Todd, which my sister absolutely adores. Really shocked to hear about his passing. R.I.P.
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A giant in the music industry. Imagine one of your credits being having written the lyrics to West Side Story. Sad to hear of his passing.
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The man who wrote the lyrics to WEST SIDE STORY died at the age of 91.
And a hell of a lot more !!!
Of course. He wrote so much more. My favorites being Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods. The reason I mentioned West Side Story was that it was timely with Spielberg's remake (which I think is a totally unnecessary film) coming up.
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I didn't discover this news until this morning. Damn, I had just been re-listening to all of his cast albums the past couple of months. And had been intrigued by a new stage musical project (Square One) that he was working on.
It was his music that got me interested in musicals back in 1987; I retain that cast album collecting as a hobby to this day.
91 years old and, until today, a living link to the days of his mentor Oscar Hammerstein II - Sondheim's passing also marks the death of Golden Age Broadway.
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I adore the original Robert Wise film. And I'm keeping an open mind until I see Spielberg's take on it. But...since WSS is in many ways a dance musical, I'm apprehensive that they apparently ditched Jerome Robbins' original choreography, which in my view was as important to the plot as the music and lyrics. We'll see...
Yes, the Robert Wise film is just brilliant. I have to agree. And I can see how Sondheim considered it a filmed stage musical, as it was mostly shot on a stage, but that's just how they made movies back then. 60 years later it still holds up imho.
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