#rip sondheim

[dorothy16]

Stephen Sondheim in “Tick, Tick... BOOM!”

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Fuck me if it weren't for the pandemic, my medical debt, student debt, and an overseas boyfriend I'm saving money to visit, I'd hop on a plane to New York to see the new gender-flipped Company literally right now.

[smilesandsarcasm12]

Picture it… I’m in the third grade and my teacher rolls out a tv on a cart and we watch the pbs version of Into the Woods during music class. I am enthralled. The characters are speaking to the audience. The characters kill the narrator. The characters laugh and cry and some of them die. This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. I cannot get enough.

Flash forward, 6th grade. They’re making a movie. Anyone who’s anyone in Hollywood is in this movie. I drag my mom to see it and I sit wide eyed in the theater and try desperately not to sing along to every song. The lyrics are etched into my brain. They’ve been there since the third grade.

I’m in 8th grade playing the Baker’s Wife. A character so human and real that I can’t believe she exists. Thank god they made a junior version of the show. Jack’s Mother leaves me alone onstage as she races after her son. I take a beat, turn to the audience, and give them my best “what the hell?” Look. They laugh. It’s a moment. I carry that feeling with me for the rest of my life.

Stephan Sondheim wanted you to be in on the joke. He changed the game. His words said what we all needed to hear, even if we were too young to understand them when we heard them at first. He extended his hand and his heart and offered you a way in. He was a giant in the sky. He is a giant in the sky now. Thank you for telling us that we decide what’s right and good. Thankful for his music. The music that will carry his legacy. Thankful for his stories and for helping me get the joke.

“Now I understand. And it’s time to leave the woods”

[321-takeoff]

Steven Sondheim passed away yesterday. He wrote some of the best musicals in history and I'm legitimately heartbroken.

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[seelahmuh]

I can not begin to put into words what Mr. Sondheim meant to us. It is simply remarkable to see how many people's lives he affected and changed with his work. Many of us artists wouldn't be where we are now if it weren't for him. I think I can proudly speak for all of us that this man, this artist, this titan of musical theatre will never be forgotten and that his art will live on within our hearts and our craft.

Now we can be sure when we say that there is a giant in the sky.

May his memory be a blessing

[its-just-me-chey]

[greenorangevioletgrass]

honestly bless my bf for comforting me without even flinching when i cried my eyes out blasting showtunes to grieve mr sondheim’s death 😭

also, my url (greenorangevioletgrass) and header (made of flecks of light) is my favorite line from my favorite song of his 😭😭😭

[dorothy16]

darrencriss Although “Do I Hear A Waltz?” was a somewhat famously troubled working experience for Sondheim, it was nonetheless the first show I ever did of his when I was 11 years old. It was the first time I would have ever really gotten familiar with any of his work, and as a result, a lasting fondness for it was instilled in me- despite his own rocky relationship with that particular material. ⁣

⁣ Being part of that musical would set me on a lifelong path of admiring his extraordinary body of work, inspiring me in my own path as a creator- one that would not only lead me to getting to work with him myself one day, but actually getting to thank him for working on that little show he had regrets about; had he not done it, I wouldn’t have been standing there talking to him. ⁣ ⁣ It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life as an artist.⁣ ⁣ Stephen Sondheim’s influence was immeasurable in his own life and times, and now that he has passed, that monumental legacy will only continue to bloom through the ages. His name is synonymous with the art form he so brilliantly redefined, and his work has changed the lives of countless audiences around the world. I am so grateful to have been part of that audience while he was alive. He will live on forever as one of the greatest contributors to not only the American Theater, but American Culture. ⁣ ⁣ So I thought on this day I’d thank him once more for that wonderful contribution he made to my own life with words from the final song of that same show I did when I was just a little boy embarking on a life in the theater, aptly titled, “Thank You So Much.”