Kukla, Fran, and Ollie (1952, rejected)

Television series written by Burr Tillstrom

Written and submitted for the show but not chosen; it would later be included in Side by Side by Sondheim in 1978 when Burr Tillstrom was in the show

Song(s) & Available Recordings

The Two of You

• Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far...

• Unsung Sondheim

The Lady or the Tiger? (1954, abandoned)

Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim & Mary Rodgers
Based on the 1882 short story by Frank Stockton

Planned one-hour TV musical

Songs(s) & Available Recordings

Opening

Another World

Crime Doesn't Pay

Fair Lady

Fanfare and Arena Sequence

I'm Above All That

I Wonder Why [or "I Once Had a Friend"]

• Hey, Love: The Songs of Mary Rodgers

King and Queen Duet

Lovely Ladies

I Believe in You (1956, unproduced)

Half-hour television play by Elaine Carrington

Song(s) & Available Recordings

They Ask Me Why I Believe in You

• Move On: A Sondheim Adventure

• Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far...

• Unsung Sondheim

Happily Ever After (1959, abandoned)

Book by Joseph Stein

The song was reworked from a version written for The Last Resorts

Songs(s) & Available Recordings

I Wouldn't Change a Thing

• Sondheim Sings, Vol. II (1946-60)

The Fabulous Fifties (1960, cut)

Television revue
Lyrics co-written with Burt Shevelove

To the tune of "This Old Man"; cut before broadcast

Songs(s) & Available Recordings

Ten Years Old

• Sondheim Sings, Vol. II (1946-60)

Do You Hear a Waltz? (1960, abandoned)

Television musical
Book (unwritten) by Arthur Laurents
Based on a The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents

Discussed television musical that was abandoned early; later the project was revived as the Broadway show Do I Hear a Waltz?

Songs(s) & Available Recordings

Do I Hear a Waltz? [early version]

• Sondheim Sings, Vol. II (1946-60)

Evening Primrose (1966)

Television musical
Book by James Goldman
Based on the 1941 short story "Evening Primrose" by John Collier

Written as an episode of ABC's Stage 67

Songs(s) & Available Recordings

If You Can Find Me, I'm Here

• Evening Primrose: 1966 Television Soundtrack

• The Frogs / Evening Primrose

• Marry Me a Little: 2012 Off-Broadway Revival Cast Album

Arts and Crafts [reprise of "If You Can Find Me, I'm Here"]

I Remember

• Evening Primrose: 1966 Television Soundtrack

• The Frogs / Evening Primrose

• Side by Side by Sondheim: 1976 Original London Cast Album

When?

• Evening Primrose: 1966 Television Soundtrack

• The Frogs / Evening Primrose

• Sondheim at the Movies

Take Me to the World

• Evening Primrose: 1966 Television Soundtrack

• The Frogs / Evening Primrose

• Sondheim on Sondheim: 2010 Original Broadway Cast Album

The Man with the Squeaky Shoes (1953, unproduced)

Teleplay by Stephen Sondheim

Used to help get a job writing for Topper

Topper (1953-54)

Teleplays by Stephen Sondheim & George Oppenheimer

11 episodes written for the show

The Last Word (1957)

Moderated by Bergan Evans

Panel discussion show regarding the English language

Rendezvous (1959)

Teleplay by Stephen Sondheim
Adapted from a 1956 New Yorker story by Roger Angell

The episode was "In an Early Winter"

Crime and Variations (ca. 1982, abandoned)

Television treatment by Stephen Sondheim & Anthony Perkins

Intended to be a multi-night mystery series with songs providing clues

June Moon (1974)

Adaptation by Burt Shevelove of the play by George S. Kaufman & Ring Lardner

Part of the Great Performances series on PBS; Sondheim had a small role as "Maxie Schwartz"

The Simpsons (2007)

Teleplay by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, & Sam Simon

Cameo voice role as himself in the episode "Yokal Chords"