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“I'm very, very sad to say that the only Sondheim show I've done is "A Little Night Music" and it was when I was in college.”

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Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“The thing about Stephen Schwartz is that, while it may be difficult to learn - it's a little bit like[Stephen] Sondheim; Sondheim is quite difficult to learn - but, once you have it in you: it never leaves you. It becomes some of your favorite music; it really does.”

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Author:Kerry Ellis

“Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.”

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Author:Bernadette Peters

“If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?”

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Author:Nancy Allen

“The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.”

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Author:Nancy Allen

“The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.”

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Author:Lea Salonga

“I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.”

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Author:Robert Lopez

“Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.”

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Author:Tom Shales

“I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”

“I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.”

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Author:Charles Busch

“I'll be geeky right now too, because I love Sondheim. Anything he does I had a blast, because every time I do a show of his, I learn something about myself because he's philosophical. During that show, the cast was incredible Hugh and Dan Levine (who I played opposite of), all of us clicked and I love the show.”

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Author:Kendra Kassebaum

“I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.”

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Author:Cornel West

“I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.”

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Author:Elaine Stritch

“I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces... If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it?... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful.”

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Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.”

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Author:Bernadette Peters

“I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.”

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Author:Christoph Waltz

“Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.”

Author:Christoph Waltz

“I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.”

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Author:Imelda Staunton