LEGENDARY Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with revolutionizing American musical theater, died Friday at the age of 91.
Sondheim — a lyricist and composer known for works including “West Side Story” and “Sweeney Todd” — died suddenly in his Connecticut home the day after celebrating Thanksgiving with friends, his attorney F. Richard Pappas said.
The publicist for the ongoing Broadway production of Sondheim’s musical “Company,” Rick Miramontez, confirmed to AFP that the musical theater titan had passed away.
“There are no words. He had them all. And the music. He was incomparable,” the UK-based Stephen Sondheim Society, which is dedicated to promoting and studying his work, tweeted along with three heart emojis, one of them broken.
Born on March 22, 1930 in New York City, Sondheim was involved in musical theater from an early age, even though both of his parents worked in the fashion industry.
He started playing
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