Movies
Composer
The Thing of It Is (1969, unproduced)
Screenplay by William Goldman, based on his 1967 novel
No, Mary Ann
Sondheim Sings, Vol. I (1962-72)
Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far...
Unsung Sondheim
Stavisky (1974)
Screenplay by Jorge Semprún
Sondheim's only full movie score
Stavisky (Générique) ("Theme")
Au claridge 1 ("Salon at the Claridge 1")
Arlette le jour ("Arlette by Day")
Concours d'elegance ("Auto Show")
La vie facile ("Easy Life")
La bureau la nuit ("Secret of Night")
Erna
Passé lontain ("Distant Past")
Arlette la nuit ("Arlette by Night")
L'aeroport de Biarritz ("Airport at Biarritz")
Trotsky a Saint-Palais ("Trotsky at Saint-Palais")
Montalvo a Biarritz ("Montalvo at Biarritz")
Operette ("Operetta")
Arlette et Alexandre ("Arlette and Stavinsky")
Passé proche ("Recent Past")
Au claridge 2 ("Salon at the Claridge 2")
L'appartament au claridge ("Suite at the Claridge")
La maison du père ("Old House")
Adieu arlette ("Goodbye Arlette")
Le vieux logis a Chamonix ("Hideout at Chamonix")
A la recherche d'Erna ("Erna Remembered")
Le futur ("The Future")
Les femmes et la mort ("Women and Death")
Final ("Finale")
All
Follies in Concert: 1985 Lincoln Center Concert
Stavisky: 1974 Original Soundtrack
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer, based on his 1974 novel
Comments
I Never Do Anything Twice
Side by Side by Sondheim: 1976 Original London Cast Album
Sondheim Tonight
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Reds (1981)
Screenplay by Warren Beatty & Trevor Griffiths
Crazy Piano [unused]
Goodbye for Now [lyrics set to underscoring, not heard in the film]
Sondheim Sublime
Unsung Sondheim
1981 Original Soundtrack
Dick Tracy (1990)
Screenplay by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr.
More
I'm Breathless
Sondheim at the Movies
Sondheim: A Celebration
Live Alone and Like It
Putting It Together: 1993 Original Off-Broadway Cast Album
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Sooner or Later
I'm Breathless
Putting It Together: 1993 Original Off-Broadway Cast Album
Sondheim at the Movies
What Can You Lose?
I'm Breathless
Sondheim at the Movies
Unsung Sondheim
Back in Business
Putting It Together: 1993 Original Off-Broadway Cast Album
Sondheim at the Movies
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Singing Out Loud (1992, unproduced)
Screenplay by William Goldman
Sand
Sondheim at the Movies
Lunch
Dawn
Sondheim at the Movies
Looks
Water Under the Bridge
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far...
Unsung Sondheim
Singing Out Loud
The Birdcage (1996)
Screenplay by Elaine May
Based on the 1973 play La Cage Aux Folles by Jean Poiret and the 1978 screenplay by Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, & Jean Poiret
It Takes All Kinds [cut]
Sondheim at the Movies
Little Dream
Sondheim at the Movies
Writer
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Screenplay by Stephen Sondheim & Anthony Perkins
The Chorus Girl Murder Case (ca. 1977, unproduced)
Screenplay by Stephen Sondheim & Anthony Perkins
Sequel to The Last of Sheila
On-Screen
Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
Documentary by D.A. Pennebaker
As himself
Camp (2003)
Screenplay by Todd Graff
Cameo appearance as himself
Six by Sondheim (2013)
Documentary by James Lapine
As himself
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (2016)
Screenplay by Kitt Lavoie, Lonny Price, & Ted Schillinger
As himself
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)
Screenplay by Steven Levenson & Jonathan Larson
Cameo voiceover as himself
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Screenplay by Rian Johnson
Cameo appearance as himself
Citations
- Horowitz, M. E. (2010). Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3282712/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_0_q_best%2520worst%2520thing
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Camp. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_camp%25202003
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Glass Onion. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11564570/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_glass%2520onion
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Original Cast Album: Company. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293475/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Reds. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Six by Sondheim. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3385404/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_2_nm_0_q_six%2520by%2520sondheim
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Stavisky. IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072204/
- IMDb.com. (n.d.). Tick, Tick... Boom! IMDb. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8721424/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_tick%2520tick%2520boom
- Smoot, W. S. (2014, June 30). Sondheim's murder mysteries. Sondheim's Murder Mysteries. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://smootpage.blogspot.com/2014/06/sondheims-murder-mysteries.html
- Sondheim, S. (2011). Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Swayne, S. (2010). How Sondheim Found His Sound. Ukraine: University of Michigan Press.