A music man for the ages (Image via Newsweek) The saddest news for the theater community after such a dismal year and a half: Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim has died at 91.
The New York Times reports his death was considered sudden, in that he was in good health and had celebrated Thanksgiving with friends uneventfully on Thursday.
On November 14, Sondheim had shown up to a performance of a revival of his Assassins in NYC. The following evening, Sondheim made a surprise in-person appearance at the first preview of a revival of his classic show Company on Broadway, receiving rapturous applause.
Just next door, the film version of tick, tick ... BOOM! was premiering, including Bradley Whitford playing a beneficent Sondheim, who was in real