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  • Stephen Sondheim "Road Show" [cover]
    Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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    Stephen Sondheim’s "Road Show" Cast Recording Set for June 30 Release

    Nonesuch Records and PS Classics are proud to announce the release of the original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Road Show—from 2008's Public Theater production featuring Alexander Gemignani and Michael Cerveris—on June 30, 2009. New York magazine described the musical as "a boisterous picaresque about two brothers flimflamming their way from the Yukon to Boca Raton at the turn of the 20th century." Road Show was directed by John Doyle, the score conducted by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick, and was produced by Tommy Krasker.

  • Stephen Sondheim
    Monday, May 11, 2009
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    Time: Stephen Sondheim Is "In the Pantheon Not of Musical Theater, but of Theater Itself"

    Stephen Sondheim is the subject of a profile in Time magazine, which suggests that there won't be another like him any time soon, "not because high-brow musical theater is dead, but because the old Sondheim keeps on being new." The article looks at new productions of the composer's works as well as new works from Sondheim, like Road Show, to explain his enduring power. Director Trevor Nunn compares Sondheim to Shakespeare. "As with Shakespeare," he tells Time, "there's heightened poetic expression in Sondheim, but when you dig into it, you find it's in touch with something real." Time concludes: "He occupies a place in the pantheon not of musical theater, but of theater itself."

  • Stephen Sondheim
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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    Signature Theatre Inaugurates Sondheim Award; Times (UK) Talks to the 20th-Century Musical "Colossus"

    Stephen Sondheim, in London recently for Trevor Nunn's revival of A Little Night Music, sat down for a revealing interview with The Times, which calls him "a one-off all right, a Colossus bestriding the second half of the 20th century." The composer was celebrated last night at a Washington, DC, gala concert, starring Bernadette Peters and Michael Cerveris, to benefit the Signature Theatre and inaugurate its Sondheim Award.

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    Monday, April 6, 2009
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    Audra McDonald to Celebrate Big-Band Era at Roundabout's Spring Gala

    Audra McDonald will be among Broadway's finest at New York's Roseland Ballroom tonight for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Spring Gala, Take Me Back to Manhattan, a one-night-only celebration of the New York's big-band era. The performance, which benefits the Roundabout's Musical Theatre Fund, features music by Rodgers, Porter, Arlen, Berlin, Ellington, and Gershwin. Tonight's event will be hosted by Nathan Lane and is also scheduled to include performances by Michael Cerveris, Kelli O'Hara, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Mario Cantone, Jane Krakowski, Cynthia Nixon, Denis O'Hare, Martha Plimpton.

  • Grammy Award
    Thursday, December 4, 2008
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    Nonesuch Artists Grab 13 Grammy Nominations

    The Grammy nominations are in, and a big congratulations goes out to the many Nonesuch artists whose work has been recognized by the Recording Academy, the organization behind the awards. Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Ry Cooder, Emmylou Harris, Toumani Diabaté, Youssou N'Dour, Stephen Sondheim, Jonny Greenwood, and Isabel Bayrakdarian were all recognized for their recent Nonesuch releases, as were producers Danger Mouse and Judith Sherman for their work on Nonesuch albums this year.

  • Monday, April 14, 2008
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    "Sweeney Todd" Touring Company Wins Five Independent Reviewers Awards

    The national touring company of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, based on the 2006 Tony Award-winning John Doyle-directed production starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, has won five awards from the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE): Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Lauren Molina), Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Ben Magnuson), Best Actress in a Musical (Judy Kaye), Best Musical Director (David Loud), and Best Visiting Production. The awards were announced yesterday at the Boston Center for the Arts. For more information, visit stagesource.com.

  • New York Magazine 40th Anniv [cover]
    Monday, April 7, 2008
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    New York Magazine Celebrates 40 Years of New York Culture

    New York magazine is celebrating its 40th year with a special anniversary issue. In it, the magazine's culture critics give their take on the most essential New York works of art since the publication's inception, creating "The New York Canon: 1968-2008."

  • Thursday, April 3, 2008
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    Stephin Merritt Plays Guest DJ on KCRW

    The Magnetic Fields' Distortion tour may have come to a close, but that just means more time for Stephin Merritt to share another of his many talents: DJing. He stopped by the KCRW studios in his newly adopted hometown of Los Angeles this past Sunday to play guest DJ on Gary Calamar's late-night show.

  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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    Rolling Stone: "Sweeney Todd" "A Bloody Wonder," Now One of Year's Best DVDs

    "There is no question what DVD you should snatch up this week. It's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," writes Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers. "Directed by Tim Burton and starring his muse, Johnny Depp, the film version of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway classic is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending. Depp received an Oscar nomination as Best Actor and he deserved to win if Daniel Day-Lewis hadn't blown the category away in There Will Be Blood."

  • Monday, March 31, 2008
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    "Sweeney Todd" Out on DVD Today

    The Tim Burton-directed film version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Helena Bonham Carter as his cohort in crime, is available now on DVD. The special collector's edition includes an in-depth look at the Sondheim musical, behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the film, and the history of the legend of the Demon Barber, among a number of additional special features.

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