According to Richard Pappas, Stephen Sondheim died suddenly Friday morning at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut (northeast of the country), after celebrating Thanksgiving with his friends the day before.
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Sondheim was one of Broadway’s best-known composers and screenwriters with musicals such as West Side Story (he wrote the screenplay, Leonard Bernstein composed the music), Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. He was also one of only a handful of composers to write both lyrics and music for musicals.
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