sunday in the park: a modest sondheim page

* = updated fairly recently

thanks for visiting. this page has gone through several incarnations since i made the first attempt to express my avid admiration for stephen sondheim way back when. hopefully there will be some things on this site you find worthwhile. comments are more than welcome. contact me or use my feedback form. thanks!

• "the boy from ..." lyrics
  
• stephen sondheim: songs i wish i'd written (at least in part)
  
• article by john lahr: from an out of print collection of essays. for the most part i disagree with this article (which was written after sweeney todd, but before such masterpieces as woods and sunday), but it's well-written and has some interesting points.
  
• so you want to put on a sondheim show?
  

news and articles: took these sections down. for news and articles i recommend the thorough sondheim.org

* novelties: miscellaneous collectibles, including playbills, posters, magazines, etc.

* song of the week: highlights rare recordings.

* phun stuff: includes sondheim wallpapers.

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• the sondheim reference guide: a discography with track listings, major revivals of shows, etc., etc. amazingly thorough.
  
• the quotable stephen sondheim page: sondheim quotes, jpgs, among other things.
• the stephen sondheim society: site for british fans. also a reference for sondheim on television.
• the stephen sondheim stage's discussion forum: for when you're "bursting with chat."
  

• new york city opera: standard bio blurb on sondheim
  
• entry at ibdb (internet broadway database): thoroughly detailed and cross-referenced
  
• the stephen sondheim stage: doesn't update very often, but has some news, events, etc.
  
• the sondheim.com FAQ: includes link to a bio and answers questions such as "what's a vodka stinger?"
  

• collection of musicals: lyrics and libretti, including some by sondheim
• woods fansite: nicely put together ... this guy is a little obssessed ...
• site at the university of pennsylvania: includes some lyrics and a syllabus for a course taught there, "theatre of stephen sondheim".
  
• a personal site: includes some lyrics and midis.
  
• www.finishingthehat.com: site for sondheim crostics.
  

• the nash co.: sells some sondheim-related t-shirts, mugs, notecards, etc.
• young playwrights, inc.: playwrighting competition for young people, partly founded by stephen sondheim. the site includes a history of the program, written by sondheim.
  
• world leaders: a festival of creative genius: a festival begun in 2001 and which took place in toronto in the fall of 2001 which this year recognized 14 creative giants, including sondheim, joni mitchell, issey miyake, harold pinter, and frank gehry. the site includes a bio on sondheim and a list of the sondheim-related special events that occurred during the festival.
  
• sondheim on the waywardintellectuals site: mostly just includes links. has some links for individual shows.