Stephen Sondheim
- MatchStephen Sondheim
- 100%Bernadette Peters
- 82%Mandy Patinkin
- 45%Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 37%Patti LuPone
- 33%Claude-Michel Schönberg
- 32%Leonard Bernstein
- 29%Stephen Schwartz
Biography
Stephen Joshua Sondheim, 22 March 1930, New York City, New York, USA. Sondheim is generally regarded as the most important theatrical composer of the 70s and 80s - his introduction of the concept musical (some say, anti-musical) or unified show, has made him a cult figure. Born into an affluent family, his father was a prominent New York dress manufacturer, Sondheim studied piano and organ sporadically from the age of seven. When he was 10 his parents divorced, and he spent some... Read more