Stephen Sondheim Dies: Oscar-Winning Composer and Lyricist Was 91

 An Oscar champ for Best Original Song for "Dick Tracy," the dearest Broadway tune ace passed on almost immediately Friday at his home in Connecticut. 

Stephen Sondheim, the cherished Oscar-and Tony-winning author and lyricist behind such creations as "Organization," "A Funny Thing Happened en route to the Forum," "Into the Woods," and the verses "West Side Story" and "Wanderer," has passed on. He died right off the bat Friday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut at 91 years old. The New York Times initially announced fresh insight about his passing. 

Sondheim's many works additionally included "Indiscretions" (1971), "A Little Night Music" (1973), "Pacific Overtures" (1976), "Sweeney Todd" (1979), "Cheerfully We Roll Along" (1981), and "Sunday in the Park With George" (1984). Sondheim won Tony Awards for Best Original Score for "Organization," "Indiscretions," "A Little Night Music," "Sweeney Todd," "Into the Woods," and "Enthusiasm," just as Best Lyrics for "Organization." He likewise won eight Grammys for the duration of his life, just as the Best Original Song Oscar for "Eventually (I Always Gets My Man)" from Warren Beatty's film "Dick Tracy." 

As of late, Sondheim's words will get back to the big screen on account of Steven Spielberg's new form of "West Side Story." (Sondheim composed the verses for the melodic, with Leonard Bernstein scoring the music.) Sondheim back in September halted by "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" to discuss Spielberg's variant (wrote by Tony Kusher), which he considered a gigantic achievement. 

"It's truly tremendous," Sondheim said of the film. "Everyone go. You'll truly live it up. Also, for those of you who know the show, there will be some genuine shocks." Sondheim said Kushner "has done some truly innovative and astonishing things with the manner in which the melodies are utilized in the story, and the entire thing has genuine shimmer to it and genuine energy, and it feels new. It's truly 1st grade, and film musicals are difficult to do and this one, Spielberg and Kushner ridiculously nailed it." 

Sondheim is made due by his significant other Jeffrey Romley and a stepbrother, Walter Sondheim. 

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