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Stephen Sondheim

Sunday Conversation with Stephen Sondheim

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  • ABOUT Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and screen, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores as composer and lyricist include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, and Assassins. He wrote the lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy.

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  • ABOUT Liz Callaway

    Actress and singer Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. She received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and appeared as Grizabella in Cats for five years. She has also starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love. Profile

  • ABOUT John Callaway

    John Callaway (1936-2009) was a journalist and the original host of WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” which he helped create in 1984 and worked on until 1999.

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  • ABOUT Michael Maggio

    Michael Maggio was associate artistic director of the Goodman Theater, Chicago’s largest nonprofit theater, from 1987 until his death in 2000.  He was also dean of the theater school at DePaul University.

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  • ABOUT Lewis Manilow

    Lewis Manilow is a lawyer, real estate developer, and lifetime trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago.  He has served as Chair of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

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  • ABOUT Meade Palidofsky

    Meade Palidofsky is the artistic director of Music Theatre Workshop, which she founded in 1984.  She is a writer and an award-winning playwright.

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  • ABOUT Sheldon Patinkin

    Sheldon Patinkin is the chair emeritus of the theater department of Columbia College, artistic consultant of The Second City and of Steppenwolf Theatre, and co-director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Summer Ensemble Workshops. He recently directed the world premiere of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited at the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre. He is the author of The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater and No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance.

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  • ABOUT Hugo Sonnenschein

    Hugo Freund Sonnenschein is a prominent American economist and educational administrator. Currently the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, his specialty is microeconomic theory; with a particular interest in game theory. He served as the eleventh president of the University of Chicago (1993-2000), and remains a member of the university's Board of Trustees. He is known for the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu Theorem.

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  • ABOUT Glenna Syse

    Glenna Syse was a theater critic at the Chicago Sun-Times. She died in 2001.

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Stephen Sondheim , the renowned composer and lyricist and the man who has defined musical theater in the last quarter of the twentieth century, joins a panel for a conversation about his music. Liz Callaway performs his songs at the piano.

Panelists include John Callaway, Michael Maggio, Lewis Manilow, Meade Palidofsky, Sheldon Patinkin, Hugo Freund Sonnenschein, and Glenna Syse.

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Theater, Musical Theater, Seurat, Composers, Poetry, Lyricists

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