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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is an American Musical theatre| musical and film composer and lyricist, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described by Frank Rich in the ''The New York Times'' as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theatre." <ref name="rich">{{cite news |last=Rich |first=Frank |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000312mag-sondheim.html |title=Conversations With Sondheim |publisher=The New York Times |date=2000-03-12 |accessdate=2007-01-17</ref> His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'', ''Company (musical)|Company'', ''Follies'', ''A Little Night Music'', ''Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street|Sweeney Todd'', ''Sunday in the Park with George'', ''Into the Woods'', and ''Assassins (musical)|Assassins'', as well as the lyrics for ''West Side Story'' and ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy''. He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
Early life
Stephen Sondheim was born to Herbert and Janet ("Foxy") Sondheim, in New York City, New York, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later on a farm in Pennsylvania. Herbert was a dress manufacturer and Foxy ... read all