Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Play)

Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91

An afternoon-long tutorial followed, teaching him, by Mr. Sondheim’s account, more about the craft than most songwriters learn in a lifetime. Hammerstein laid out a path of writing exercises for him: Adapt a good play into a musical; adapt a flawed play into a musical; adapt a story from another medium into a musical; and, […]