Stephen Sondheim is dead to me (sob, RIP)

I hope you like surprises.

Again, everything on DL is absolutely bonkers today. OP very obviously knew there was already a huge thread. Why pretend otherwise? What is this trolling accomplishing?

The search function isn't great on this site, r2.

There there OP.

Please note the correct title format that we use for celebrities.

X is dead to me.

No one needs to use "dead to me," that's not a DL tradition.

Still, R2 is right, OP obviously knew this had already been posted.

"Is Dead to Me!" is indeed a DL tradition.

R3 thank you, I genuinely didn’t see this posted. I thought it was breaking news, color me embarrassed.

DefatTurd almost singlehandedly ruins this forum. It’s obviously miserable and it wants others to be miserable as well.

I'd like to write a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, but so many others are more eloquent than I could ever be. I do need to say this: he was a great songwriter, of course, with a career envied by most composers and playwrights and poets. He was *the* great musical dramatist, perhaps the greatest there ever was. But ultimately, he was the most important person in theater in our lifetimes, comparable to Shakespeare. Yes, Sondheim is our Shakespeare. He is unequalled.

Bump it with a trumpet.

The original thread maxed out and is now closed. I guess we come here now (?)...

This thread can be Lucy to the Jessie original.

I've always wondered why he never did any acting. That face...so soft, so smooth, so...JABBA.

What happened to his left eye and why didn't he have those brown and black marks removed from his face?

R15 on today's "CBS Sunday Morning" they showed a picture when he acted.

Is this the official Sondheim mourning thread PT2?

Ben Platt posted a video of a Sondheim interview on his Instagram. Sondheim talks about the people who were teachers to him, including Oscar Hammerstein.

(You may have to hit the play button on the picture to view it.)

Amusing Twitter anecdote.

Yes, he acted a few times. Most notably in the play June Moon, which was filmed for TV, and is (or was) available on DVD. He also appeared as himself in the film Camp. You can hear him in Tick Tick Boom, of course, but also on the original cast album of Gypsy, speaking the line "You ain't getting 88¢ from me!"

There are two CDs of Sondheim Sings, with recordings he made of his own songs as demos for producers, orchestrators, etc. There's a lot more of that material out there, but as it is very much niche material no one wanted to spend the money to release it. Humblebrag: he lost most of those recordings in a fire at his home, and I was happy and proud to be able to replace a fair amount of it for him from my own collection.

Do you think Johnny Mathis spent anytime hung in a closet?

Johnny is hung, but not in the closet.

Sondheim singing Move On at Michael Bennett's memorial