Stephen Sondheim was the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist who wrote Into the Woods, West Side Story, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Assassins, and more. This hour, a look at the life and music of Sondheim.

And, on the occasion of the new Hartford Stage/TheaterWorks Hartford co-production, we dig into the story and music of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

GUESTS:

• Daniel Okrent: Author of Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy
• Wiley DeWeese: Music director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor. He is currently Music Director for The Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford’s co-production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Music featured (in order):

• Prologue: Into the Woods – 2022 OBC and Disney Theatrical Instrumental
• Anyone Can Whistle – Bernadette Peters
• Our Time – 2023 Merrily We Roll Along New OBC
• I Know Things Now – Danielle Ferland, Into the Woods OBC
• Someone in a Tree – Pacific Overtures OBC
• CUT FOR TIME Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd – Sweeney Todd OBC
• Pretty Women – Sweeney Todd OBC
• Prelude: Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd – Sweeney Todd OBC
• Concerto Macabro (Excerpt) – Bernard Herrmann
• Johanna (Mea Culpa) – Sweeney Todd OBC
• Corn Puddin’ – Schmigadoon!
• The Worst Pies in London – Sweeney Todd OBC
• A Little Priest – Sweeney Todd OBC