Working with playwright and director James Lapine, Sondheim wrote the Pulitzer-winning Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, Into the Woods in 1987, and Passion in 1991. Working with director and producer Harold Prince, Sondheim made his largest mark on the art form with a string of groundbreaking musicals that challenged what the genre could talk about and how, including Company in 1970, Follies in 1971, A Little Night Music in 1973, Pacific Overtures in 1976, Sweeney Todd in 1979, and Merrily We Roll Along in 1981. He made his Broadway debut contributing lyrics to Leonard Bernstein's music in 1957's West Side Story, and would go on to pen lyrics to 1959's Gypsy before making his debut as a composer-lyricist on the Main Stem with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1962. A revival of his Company, considered to be the first successful "concept" musical, was the most Tony-winning production of the 2021-22 Broadway season in a production directed by Tony winner Marianne Elliott that newly reimagined its main character as a perpetually single woman-Bobbie instead of Bobby. Books lay around the room, but could give it no. Sondheim passed away in November of last year at the age of 91, leaving behind a body of work that transformed the face of musical theatre on Broadway and beyond. The many chairs and tables had been used for a long, long time.
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The Manhattan venue hosted a 12-hour edition of Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim in 2005, which was broadcast live on SiriusXM in full and received a highlights CD release as well. The event will feature music, dances, and conversations about the late Broadway composer-lyricist featuring performers to be announced. After the installation, each element will be donated to a large-scale affordable housing construction project.Symphony Space will bring back its all-day marathon concert Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim, with the new entry set to play the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre October 15 at 3 PM and continuing through 11 PM. The geofoam blocks will leave the site as pristine as the day they arrived, while the Tyvek rolls will be repurposed by trimming off a few feet UV-damaged material. Each element will be ready for immediate re-use. We propose the barest modifications to stock construction materials. Construction materials will be part of the installation only insofar as the PS1 program constitutes a short delay in their transit toward some other use. There is the fall of water, the fall of construction material, but also a third movement. Folded into a super-scaled “Z” shape, the pipe rears as a figure above the courtyard walls and addresses the neighborhood beyond. It doubles the concrete walls of the court to produce the image of a deep, still well.Ī culvert pipe conjoins the two zones, delivering flows to one and siphoning from the other. A dark plastic pool liner turns the water’s surface into a mirror. The shallow pool is strewn with occasional blocks where visitors can sit, dip their feet in water, and take in the full sun. The pump intake sits in a collection pond in the smaller rear court. The base materials are rendered spectacular by their suspension. Crowds looks up through a cloud of dazzlingly white styrene. The splashes and mists of flowing water cool the Warm Up crowds by evaporation. Visitors to walk or lounge underneath, shielded from the summer sun by the overlap of many projected shadows. The suspended solid material makes a porous canopy. The triangular forecourt is the delivery zone, analogous to the decorative face of a baroque fountain. The entire courtyard is conceptualized according to the logic of a circulating pump. Plummeting foam and wood make catchment basins and decorative tiers. It is not an accident, but a marvelous aberration–the one fall in a million that makes a fountain. The careful order of this flow of liquid belies the apparent chance operation of falling construction material. Despite the apparent disorder of the construction material through which it flows, the water is divided neatly into three streams that empty onto a small creek on the ground below. There is a fall of water, lacing through the solid material, pouring across its dorsal surfaces, collecting in little pools and rivulets.