A tribute to the man and his work.
Evening Primrose was shot in just a couple of days, and we had only one Sunday in Stern’s department store. I spent most of the time looking over the cameraman’s shoulder. When Tony Perkins asked where he should look while he sang, I told him not to look directly into the lens, but just to the left and right of it. It was terrible advice and as a consequence, he looks cross-eyed. That was the last time I tried to direct anything.
— The Sondheim Review Vol. 7, No. 1
Angela Lansbury will be the first recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award from a Washington-area theater that has produced more of his works than any other U.S. theater.
Signature Theatre announced Thursday that it will honor Lansbury at a gala celebration in April.
Lansbury is a five-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical star. Two of her Tonys are for Sondheim musicals — the 1974 revival of “Gypsy” and “Sweeney Todd” in 1979.
Lansbury’s first musical theater appearance was in “Anyone Can Whistle.” Sondheim wrote the score, but the show only ran for nine performances. Sondheim says the award will help make it up to Lansbury.
Lansbury returns to Broadway this month in Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” with Catherine Zeta-Jones. (source)
I wish I knew what was going on here. Or more specifically, why Sondheim is doing jazz hands.
Bernadette Peters singing “Children Will Listen”
Judy Kuhn and Michael Cerveris, Passion
Sondheim with Adam Guettel and Mary Rodgers at the Westport Country Playhouse’s 2009 gala
