Culture
Stephen Sondheim, Tony-Winning Broadway Innovator, Dies at 91
- His shows included ‘Company,’ ‘Sweeney Todd,’ and ‘Follies’
- He remade the American musical as both composer and lyricist
Stephen Sondheim, whose quick-witted lyrics made Broadway audiences sit up and listen in the 1950s and whose cerebral, ground-breaking shows from “Company” in 1970 to “Merrily We Roll Along” more than a decade later thrust the American musical into the modern era, has died. He was 91.
His death was confirmed by Broadway publicist Rick Miramontez. Sondheim died in his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, the New York Times reported, citing his lawyer and friend F. Richard Pappas. Sondheim had a Thanksgiving dinner with friends the day before, the paper said. Pappas couldn’t be immediately reached in his office in Austin, Texas.