Can you name the musicals of Stephen Sondheim?

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Sondheim musicals Quiz

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Created by: PhilSandifer -
Published: November 19th, 2008
Category: Music
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Tags: Musical Quizzes, sondheim, stephen, Stephen Sondheim, Broadway Musicals

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	yankeessuck8991:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 21:50 GMT	8 points
	musical theater nerds, unite!

	Librería:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 22:10 GMT	3 points
	I don't know enough about musical theatre but I sure did love that taped production with the original broadway cast of Into the Woods. Count me in

	starsaphire:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 23:22 GMT	6 points
	Thank you so much for this quiz! Sondheim is one of my heroes. He's a genius with language, IMHO.

	Tom:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 23:39 GMT	2 points
	I sorta hate to ask it, but what's a rhyme for basket? This quiz is great. How about one for LLoyd Webber or Rodgers and Hammerstein?

	TheBluesMan:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 00:59 GMT	2 points
	@Tom. Rodgers & Hammerstein was done three months ago. http://www.sporcle.com/games/rodgersandhammerstein.php

	Tom:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:39 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for the heads up. That one got by me.

	magister:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:02 GMT	2 points
	Yes! Phil, I've been waiting for quite a while! Thanks!

	RandallPinkston:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 04:31 GMT	6 points
	Great quiz. Perhaps the wording of the instructions can be a bit more specific? You're looking for all non-revue/non-compilation shows that Sondheim wrote at least the lyrics for. Most people will think first of the shows that he wrote both music and lyrics for, which are quite distinct from the ones that he wrote only lyrics for.

	lizzibee:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 05:11 GMT	3 points
	What about "Evening Primrose"? It's made-for-tv but still a musical. Maybe as a bonus?

	Jillian:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 08:49 GMT	1 point
	What about Candide, Girls of Summer, and Phinney's Rainbow?

	PhilSandifer:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 17:07 GMT	1 point
	Candide, my understanding is he just revised Wilbur's lyrics, not wrote new lyrics. Girls of Summer wasn't a musical. Phinney's Rainbow would have made a good bonus answer, but is really too obscure to include. :)

	Dzon:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 23:39 GMT	2 points
	The quiz I've been waiting for!! Leaving it at just the shows he wrote the lyrics for is fair enough - his contributions to Candide were pretty minor IIRC. Also reasonable to leave out the non-musical play he co-wrote, I think with George Furth - anyone tell me the name of that for a bonus point?? No checking Wikipedia...

	Dzon:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 23:42 GMT	4 points
	Also, while we're being pedantic, I think it's sensible to leave out the films he wrote music or songs for - Reds, Dick Tracey, Stavisky etc. And he cowrote a movie script with Anthony Perkins - The Last of Sheila. Anyway. Sondheim geek, signing off.

	magister:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 00:31 GMT	1 point
	Are the second dates on some of these (e.g. 1954/1997) dates of Broadway revivals or is there something more significant? If only revivals, I've seen 1959/1979/1984 on Broadway in the last 2.5 years. I know 1970 has run as a revival as well.

	PhilSandifer:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 01:52 GMT	1 point
	magister - the two split dates represent cases where something he wrote significantly earlier had a much later Broadway premiere. Saturday Night went unproduced for that time, and finally premiered in 1997 on the West End and The Frogs was edited by Nathan Lane and then premiered in 2004, having previously been performed only in Yale University's swimming pool.

	magister:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 03:09 GMT	1 point
	Gotcha. I was wondering about that considering I was sure The Frogs was, for all intents and purposes, new in 2004. (Well, as new as an adaptation of Aristophanes can be.) Thanks for the clarification!

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	PhilSandifer:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 13:11 GMT	3 points
	Camden - Your loss.

	magister:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 14:25 GMT	2 points
	@Phil Sandifer RE: Camden: word.

	TheFrog:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 17:50 GMT	5 points
	Thank you for this quiz. It is very well put together. I personally would have included Evening Primrose, but ok. BUT, Bounce was later revised into "Road Show" which just premiered at the public theatre in NYC. You really should fix that. Maybe put Bounce in parenthesis because it has been known by that name.

	Keiyashi:	Jan 9th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	1 point
	A Little Night Music anyone???

	desafinado440:	Mar 28th, 2009 at 06:49 GMT	-3 points
	calling West Side Story a Sondheim musical is stretching it...he only wrote the lyrics. West Side Story is a Bernstein musical.

	SamE1331:	Jun 12th, 2009 at 18:55 GMT	1 point
	You are missing Road Show! It is different from Bounce. also Side by side by Sondheim and Evening Primrose would be good bonus answers.

	trishtea:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 13:10 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz! (although i'll now go and hang my head in shame having only got 6!) You should maybe have Putting it Together as a bonus answer, seeing as it's a revue of songs from only his shows and has had at least 1 west end and 1 broadway incarnation if i remember rightly.

	bottesini12:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 02:44 GMT	-2 points
	Sondheim didn't write west side story, he was a lyricist.

	more2see:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 00:15 GMT	2 points
	THANK GOD! I was getting sick of quizzes with every Webber show ever and no Sondheim! haha. Almost forgot Do I Hear a Waltz, but got it in before time ran out. Thanks!

	jelliotyates:	Jul 15th, 2010 at 23:10 GMT	1 point
	But Sondheim did write the music for "Gee, Officer Krupke" for West Side. If Gypsy (Jule Styne) counts, so does West Side. We love you, Steve.

	regencygirl:	Aug 11th, 2010 at 03:22 GMT	4 points
	I understand not putting Evening Primrose on here, as it's not a staged work, but it's really a remarkable piece of art and more people should know about it. For everyone who's complaining about West Side Story cause Sondheim "only" wrote the lyrics- I'm pretty sure writing the lyrics for a show like West Side Story or Gypsy is enough of a job and an art to deserve more credit than "only"...

	Musicalfan:	Aug 8th, 2011 at 20:58 GMT	1 point
	I know that it's a rework of bounce but surely Roadshpw should be up there. It's had a lot more success than Bounce and I personally can vouch for it