STEPHEN SONDHEIM
| Nationality: | USA 1930 |
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Plays by Stephen Sondheim
Anyone Can Whistle |
| 1st Produced: | Majestic Theater, New York | 1964 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Rodgers & Hammerstein, NY | - | ||
Original cast recording: Columbia ( CK-2480) | 1964 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: The present. A not too distant town | ||||
Assassins |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizon, New York | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group | 1991 | ||
Original cast recording: RCA Victor (60737 2 RC) | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Book by John Weidman; Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: Political assissination in the United States from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald | ||||
Bounce |
| 1st Produced: | Goodman Theatre, Chicago | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: Nonesuch (79830-2) | 2004 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Chain Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She | ||||
Synopsis: One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | ||||
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life |
| 1st Produced: | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written by Terrence McNally; Original Songs by: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Featuring songs with lyrics by Milton Leeds, James Taylor, Irving Berlin, Lawrence Holofcener, Sheldon Harnick, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Lee Adams, Fred Ebb, Dorothy Fields, Edward Eliscu, Stella Unger and Jerry Bock; Featuring songs by Victor Young, Alberto Domingues, James Taylor, Irving Berlin, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Strouse, John Kander, Cy Coleman, Astor Piazzolla, Billy Rose and Lawrence Holofcener. | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Company |
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre, NY | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | musical comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 12 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by George Furth | ||||
Synopsis: The show is about a 35-year-old bachelor named Robert who is helped toward connection and commitment by his three girlfriends and his married friends, five diverse married couples. The songs include "Side by Side by Side" and "The Ladies Who Lunch," | ||||
Do I Hear A Waltz? |
| 1st Produced: | 46th Street Theatre, NY | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents; Based on the play "The Time of the Cuckoo" by Arthur Laurents | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Venice: Pensione Fiora, Di Rossi's shop, Piazza San Marco. The present. | ||||
Follies |
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theatre, (New York) | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: Capitol (92094) | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: Book by James Goldman; Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: bout a reunion of former showgirls in a theatre slated for demolition | ||||
Frogs, The |
| 1st Produced: | Vivian Beaumont Theatre, | 2004 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A comedy written in 405 b.c. by Aristophanes; "The Frogs" freely adapted by Burt Shevelove; "The Frogs" even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane; Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics for "Fear No More" from "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: The time is the present. The place is Ancient Greece | ||||
Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A |
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre, NY | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart; A musical comedy based on the plays of Plautus | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Two hundred years before the Christian era, a day in spring. A street in Rome in front of the houses of Erronius, Senex and Lycus | ||||
Getting Away With Murder |
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, New York | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 2 voices | |||
Notes: Written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: The suite on the to floor of an old New York apartment building. The present. October | ||||
Girls Of Summer |
| 1st Produced: | Longacre Theatre | 1956 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1957 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written by N. Richard Nash; Featuring the song "Girls of Summer" composed by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Hilda Brookman's apartment, New York City, in early summer of the present day. | ||||
Gypsy |
| 1st Produced: | Broadway Theatre, NY | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Various cities throughout the U.S. From the 1920s to the 1930s | ||||
Into the Woods |
| 1st Produced: | Old Globe Theatre | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Simon and Schuster | - | ||
Original cast recording: RCA (6796) | 1987 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by James Lapine | ||||
Synopsis: Winner of 3 1988 Tony Awards, this brings to musical life favourite characters from children's fairy-tales, such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood & Jack and the Beanstalk | ||||
Invitation To A March |
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre, New York | 1960 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1961 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written by Arthur Laurents; Incidental music by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: The South Shore of Long Island, summertime | ||||
Little Night Music, A |
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre, NY | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Hugh Wheeler; Suggested by the film "Smiles of a Summer Night" by Ingmar Bergman | ||||
Synopsis: This tells of middle-aged actress Desiree Armfeldt's attempts to rid herself of one lover in order to marry another | ||||
Merrily We Roll Along |
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theater, New York | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: RCA (RCD1-5840) | 1981 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by George Furth; From the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart | ||||
Synopsis: Franklin Shepard is a famous composer and Hollywood excutive - but how did he get to where he is. We slip back over the years ending up at the start of it all. It is 1959 and Franklin and his friends Charley and Mary are on the roof of their appartment block looking for Sputnik. | ||||
Pacific Overtures |
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theatre, NY | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Japan. July, 1853 and on | ||||
Passion |
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth Theatre, NY | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by James Lapine; Based on the film "Passione d'Amore" directed by Ettore Scola | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Milan and a remote Italian military outpost, 1863 | ||||
Putting It Together |
| 1st Produced: | Old Fire Station, NY | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original 1992 production devised by Stephen Sondheim and Julie N. McKenzie. Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Road Show |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2008 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: Spanning 40 years from the Alaskan Gold Rush to the Florida real estate boom in the 1930s, Road Show is the story of two brothers whose quest for the American dream turns into a test of morality and judgment that changes their lives in unexpected ways. This show has been seen, in earlier forms, under the titles Bounce, Wise Guys, and Gold! - press release | ||||
Saturday Night |
| 1st Produced: | Bridewell Theatre, London | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: First Night Cast (65) | 1998 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by Julis J Epstein; book by Philip G Epstein | ||||
Synopsis: A group of Brooklyn boys try to make money on the stock exchange. However, it is 1929. | ||||
Side By Side By Sondheim |
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre, NY | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Additional music by Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne | ||||
Synopsis: A revue in two acts | ||||
Sunday in the Park with George |
| 1st Produced: | Booth Theatre, NY | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by James Lapine | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Act I: A series of Sundays from 1884 to 1886; a park on an island in the Seine just outside of Paris and George's studio. Act II: An American art museum and on the island in 1984. | ||||
Sweeney Todd |
| 1st Produced: | Uris Theatre, NY | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Hugh Wheeler; Based on a version of "Sweeney Todd" by Christopher Bond | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: The 19th Century. London. Fleet Street and environs | ||||
Twigs |
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, New York | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1972 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: includes Emily, Celia, Dorothy, Ma. Written by George Furth; Incidental music by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: It's the day before Thanksgiving back in the time of disco and orange appliances, and three sisters and their mother are making their various preparations. Through their established rituals and chance encounters, the audience gets a peek into how four women hewn from the same wood have been shaped by the forces in their varying surroundings. nytheatre.com | ||||
West Side Story |
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theatre, NY | 1957 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1959 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | 12 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: The West Side of New York City during the last days of Summer. 1957 | ||||