Sondheim, a titan of musical theater, passed away last month at the age of 91.
Tributes are pouring in for the titan of Broadway music and theatre.Stephen Sondheim has done the masterpiece musicals of our age, and we were about to talk about one of his classics,"West Side Story."
He was excited about Steven Spielberg's reimagined version of"West Side Story," being released Dec. 10. “I said just casually, 'Who's doing the lyrics?' and he said, 'Oh, I never thought of you,'" Sondheim said."[Laurents] said, 'I didn't much like your music, but I thought your lyrics were really good,' so I got the job.”
“Lyrics are not poetry. Poetry is dense and depends on the abutment of words and thoughts and ideas and suggestions. But for theater, you've got to tell the audience exactly what's going on -- you got to under-write, not overwrite. And a bouquet is over-writing,” Sondheim said.Composer Stephen Sondheim sat down with ABC News and spoke about one of his classics,"West Side Story."
That's, as you know, the secret of any kind of narrative art," he continued."There is something about the characters and the story that speak to you as a listener and that you can, to use that awful word, identify with, that move you."
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