Writing only with soft, Blackwing pencils - the brand went out of production years ago, so he bought a lifetime supply - the meticulous New Yorker delighted in wordplay, and his lyrics were lauded for their wit and intricacy.įrom his song “Now,” about a lawyer considering his options to woo his young wife, from 1973’s A Little Night Music: ![]() “Send in the Clowns,” his somberly plaintive plea from A Little Night Music, the 1973 play inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night, has been recorded by such notable singers as Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand and Krusty the Clown. ![]() In the late 1950s, Sondheim put words to Bernstein’s music for the original production of West Side Story (“Maria,” “America”), then collaborated with Jule Styne on Gypsy (“Everything’s Coming Up Roses”).
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