Stephen Sondheim was the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist who wrote Into the Woods, West Side Story, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Assassins, and more. This hour, a look at the life and music of Sondheim.
And, on the occasion of the new Hartford Stage/TheaterWorks Hartford co-production, we dig into the story and music of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
GUESTS:
- Daniel Okrent: Author of Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy
- Wiley DeWeese: Music director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor. He is currently Music Director for The Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford’s co-production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Music featured (in order):
- Prologue: Into the Woods – 2022 OBC and Disney Theatrical Instrumental
- Anyone Can Whistle – Bernadette Peters
- I Know Things Now – Danielle Ferland, Into the Woods OBC
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd “Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd” – Sweeney Todd OBC
- Pretty Women – Sweeney Todd OBC
- Concerto Macabro (Excerpt) – Bernard Herrmann
- Johanna (Mea Culpa) – Sweeney Todd OBC
- Corn Puddin’ – Schmigadoon!
- The Worst Pies in London – Sweeney Todd OBC
- A Little Priest – Sweeney Todd OBC
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