Stephen Sondheim was, put simply, among the most important figures in the history of musical theater.

His major works include West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods.

Sondheim won eight Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, an Oscar, eight Grammy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Stephen Sondheim died November 26 in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 91.

GUESTS:

• Steve Metcalf - Director emeritus of the University of Hartford’s Presidents’ College
• Alexandra Petri - Columnist for the Washington Post and the author of Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why
• Gene Seymour - A “writer, professional spectator, pop-culture maven, and jazz geek”
• Howard Sherman - Theater administrator, writer, and advocate; author of Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century

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