What are Stephen Sondheim musicals?
Stephen Sondheim is a world famous composer and lyric for stage musicals. From his early mentoring under the great composer Oscar Hammerstein Sondheim showed the talent for innovative music techniques, unusual compositions and great lyrics. In her long career, Stephen Sondheim's music won him for the drama Seven Tony Awards, the Academy Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His musicals are among the most popular in the canon of the theater.
Many people do not realize that one of the age of 27, Sondheim composed texts for West Side Story in 1957. Although the musical is known for his powerful story and strong music score of Leonard Bernstein "Cool". Despite the incredible success of the music and film Stephen Sondheim, he considered the lyrics too poetic. In 1959 he also composed only texts for the popular musical cips . This comedy from 1962 fromAsazed in ancient Rome received considerable announcements and several Tony awards in their initial Broadway run, but the score was not well received.
After Sondheim in 1970. In 1970. In 1970. Sondheim was again given the positive attention of the company . Company is considered to be the first of the great musicals in Sondheim, where they represent their trademarks of staccato rhythms and complicated internal rhyming structure.
Dark and tragic Sweens todd has may have become the most famous musical Sondheim. The story follows the unauthorized imprisoned barberry in Victorian London, returning from the age of 15 in an Australian criminal colony decided to revenge. With the help of a mercenary, Todd will encounter the murder of his prosecutors in his barber shop and let them turn into a cake. While Sweens todd is undoubtedly the most worse most scary musicals SondheIm, the audience is constantly popular. In 2007 he created a film version of director Tim Burton, where Johnny Depp played as a demon Holič.
Many critics consider the 1980s to be the golden age of Sondheim's musicals. In 1985, Sunday in the park with George received the Pulitzer Prize for the drama, only 6. Time in history, the price passed to the musical. The game follows the suffering of the poinillaist painter George Seurat when working on his masterpiece. The score is known for its lyricism, including the popular "completion of the hat" and "beautiful".
closely watched the heels of this success, to the forest was made in 1987 to greatly critically recognize. This fairy tale nightmare follows several legendary characters, including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel, as their promised happy endings disintegrated. This musical Sondheim is often considered to be justified by his eclectic style; After being tied to Tony Awards for Sunday in the park with George , the forest doThe perimeter was awarded with several significant winnings.
Stephen Sondheim proved to be a visionary and a unique addition to the world of music theater. Its melody may not always be easy to hum, because it often ignores the classical melodic structure, but can be greatly affected and constructed with apparent technical fitness. Many musical critics consider the influence of Sondheim's musicals to be one of the main forces in the modern music theater and his new works are still very expected in the Music Theater community.