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Bernadette Peters - 100% match to Stephen Sondheim

Bernadette Lazzara, 28 February 1948, Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. Often called ‘the finest singing actress since Barbra Streisand’, Bernadette Peters is certainly one of the few leading ladies of the last decade or so whose name on a Broadway marquee can cause box-office queues to form before the show has gone into previews. She was tap-dancin Read more

Company - 88% match to Stephen Sondheim

Derek Bailey (29 January 1930, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, d. 25 December 2005, London, England) established the Company week/festival in 1977 and, despite all the odds, several changes of venue and the occasional annual hiccup, the unpredictability of its financial success (or otherwise) it remained going, strong and ever-surprising, into the early 00s. Bailey’s ide Read more

Patti LuPone - 76% match to Stephen Sondheim

21 April 1949, Northport, Long Island, New York, USA. An actress and singer who left several well-known Hollywood and Broadway stars feeling bitterly disappointed and distraught when she won the role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 London production of Sunset Boulevard. LuPone made her stage debut, tap dancing, at the age of four, and later took dancing c Read more

Angela Lansbury - 45% match to Stephen Sondheim

Angela Brigid Lansbury, 16 October 1925, London, England. An actress and singer who enjoyed a prolific career in Hollywood before blossoming into a star of Broadway musicals in the 60s. Angela Lansbury’s grandfather was George Lansbury, the legendary social reformer, and leader of the British Labour Party for a time during the 30s. She was taken to America in 1942 by he Read more

Andrew Lloyd Webber - 41% match to Stephen Sondheim

22 March 1948, London, England. The ‘Sir Arthur Sullivan’ of the rock age was born the son of a Royal College of Music professor and a piano teacher. His inbred musical strength manifested itself in a command of piano, violin and French horn by the time he had spent a year at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he penned The Likes Of Us with lyricist (and law student) Read more

Barbara Cook - 37% match to Stephen Sondheim

Leonard Bernstein - 29% match to Stephen Sondheim

Louis Bernstein, 25 August 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, d. 14 October 1990, New York City, New York, USA. Bernstein was a major and charismatic figure in modern classical music and the Broadway musical theatre. He was also a conductor, composer, pianist, author and lecturer. A son of immigrant Russian Jews, Bernstein started to play the piano at the age of 10. In his Read more

Alan Menken - 27% match to Stephen Sondheim

Danny Elfman - 26% match to Stephen Sondheim

Daniel Robert Elfman, 29 May 1953, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Elfman quit school in his late teens and with his older brother, Richard Elfman, spent time in France, then moved to West Africa. Back in the USA in the late 70s, he joined rock band Oingo Boingo, led by his brother, and also worked in 1980 on music for Richard’s 1980 film, Forbidden Zone, in which Read more

Marvin Hamlisch - 26% match to Stephen Sondheim

2 June 1944, New York City, New York, USA. A pianist, arranger and conductor, who has made an indelible mark as a composer for Broadway musical shows and films, Hamlisch began as a child prodigy, and played the piano by ear at the age of five. When he was seven, he became the youngest student ever to be enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music. One of the first songs he wro Read more

Frank Loesser - 24% match to Stephen Sondheim

Frank Henry Loesser, 29 June 1910, New York City, New York, USA, d. 28 July 1969. A leading songwriter for the stage, films and Tin Pan Alley from the 30s through to the 60s. Initially, he only wrote lyrics, but later in his career he provided both words and music, and sometimes co-produced through his Frank Productions. Born into a musical family (his father was a music tea Read more

Audra McDonald - 20% match to Stephen Sondheim

Mandy Patinkin - 20% match to Stephen Sondheim

Mandel Patinkin, 30 November 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA. An actor and singer with a ‘wonderfully expressive voice’, as a boy Patinkin sang in the choir at his Jewish temple, and performed in musicals such as Anything Goes, Stop The World - I Want To Get Off and Carousel at the local youth centre. After attending the University of Kansas and studying drama at the Read more

Elaine Stritch - 18% match to Stephen Sondheim

2 February 1925, Detroit, Michigan, USA. An inimitable actress and singer with a magnetic appeal, who has combined a career in the musical theatre with another in drama, films and on television. Stritch has been called caustic, sardonic, witty, tough, and much else besides. She is said to have sung for the first time on stage in the Long Island revue The Shape Of Things!, in Read more

Ethel Merman - 18% match to Stephen Sondheim

Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, 16 January 1909, Astoria, New York, USA, d. 15 February 1984, New York, USA. One of the most celebrated ladies of the Broadway musical stage, a dynamic entertainer, with a loud, brash, theatrical singing style, flawless diction, and extravagant manner, who usually played a gutsy lady with a heart of gold. Merman worked first as a secretary, then sang Read more