1. Sondheim found a mentor, if not a father figure, in Hammerstein, Patinkin said.

2. ''But I didn't sleep with Sondheim.

3. Unless otherwise noted, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

4. Sondheim questioned if he should write only the lyrics for yet another show, but his mentor Oscar Hammerstein told him it would be valuable experience to write for a star.

5. Sondheim worked closely with book writer Arthur Laurents to create the show.

6. Stephen Sondheim was born to Herbert and Janet ("Foxy") Sondheim, in New York City, New York, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later on a farm in Pennsylvania.

7. Since then Sondheim has devoted himself to both composing and writing lyrics for a series of varied and adventuresome musicals, beginning with the innovative "concept musical" Company in 1970.

8. Sondheim again was able to show his versatility and his adaptability.

9. The collaboration between Sondheim and Prince would largely end after Merrily.

10. It follows last season's sudden disappearance of Stephen Sondheim 's " Bounce. "

11. Hammerstein had a profound influence on the young Sondheim, especially in his development of love for musical theater.

12. In doing so[/sondheim.html], Sondheim was able to bring his work to another level.

13. When Foxy died on September 15, 1993, Sondheim refused to attend her funeral.

14. In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.

15. In 1950, Sondheim graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

16. The elder Hammerstein became a surrogate father to Sondheim, as the young man attempted to stay away from home as much as possible.

17. The failure of Merrily greatly affected Sondheim; he was ready to quit theater and do movies or create video games or write mysteries.

18. At this point, Sondheim had participated in three straight hits - he'd yet to taste failure on Broadway.

19. In Mark Eden Horowitz's Sondheim on Music, Sondheim says that when he asked Babbitt if he could study atonality, Babbitt replied "No, I don't think you've exhausted your tonal resources yet."

20. On September 26th 1957, Stephen Sondheim wrote a letter to Leonard Bernstein upon the opening of West Side Story.

21. "The curtain went up and revealed a piano, " Sondheim recalled. "A butler took a duster and brushed it up, tinkling the keys.

22. At about the age of ten, around the time of his parents' divorce, Sondheim became friends with Jimmy Hammerstein, son of the well-known lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.

23. Though his favorite movies include classics like Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath, and Stairway to Heaven, Sondheim says he dislikes movie musicals.