Stuart pedlar musical director biography sample

  • David Kernan, Tim Higgs, Stuart Pedlar · 1986.
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  • The Stephen Sondheim Society

    You've been a perfect friend...

    It’s with great sadness that we report the death of our friend and patron Stephen Sondheim. He passed away at the age of 91 early on Friday morning at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut.

    His friend and lawyer Richard Pappas announced his passing, which he described as “sudden”. Indeed, only the previous day Mr Sondheim had celebrated Thanksgiving Dinner with some friends locally.

    Only an hour after this news was released the BBC News Channel included a five minute tribute which included excerpts of Millicent Martin singing ‘Send in the Clowns’ - “his only hit song”! - along with Adrian Lester in Company and Maria Friedman in the original NT production of Sunday. Also included was a live interview with Sierra Boggess in New York. Undoubtedly the lights on Broadway will be dimmed in his honour.

    The BBC called him "a titan of musical theatre who turned the unlikeliest of subjects into entertainment landmarks"; Playbill said his "thematically complex, lyrically nimble, and musically challenging scores changed the face of musical theatre during the latter half of the 20th century"; The New York Times said he "raised and reset the artistic standard for the American st

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    WSG Productions Ltd

    YearPlayTheatre
    1969/70/71THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT WENT TO SEE…

    (including Christmas West End season presented by Knightsbridge Productions Ltd – Apollo Theatre

    Jeannetta Cochrane
    1973LARRY THE LAMB IN TOYTOWNShaw
    1978FLIBBERTY AND THE PENGUINTour

    Whirligig Theatre

    Year

    Play

    Theatre

    1979THE PLOTTERS OF CABBAGE PATCH CORNERSadler’s Wells/Tour
    1980NUTCRACKER SWEETSadler’s Wells/Tour
    1981THE IDEAL GNOME EXPEDITIONSadler’s Wells/Tour
    1982THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT WENT TO SEE…Sadler’s Wells/Tour
    1983THE SELFISH SHELLFISHSadler’s Wells/Tour
    1984THE SELFISH SHELLFISH/THE PAPERTOWN PAPERCHASESadler’s Wells/Tour
    1985THE GINGERBREAD MANSadler’s Wells/Tour/

    Bloomsbury Theatre/

    Channel 4

    1986THE OLD MAN OF LOCHNAGARSadler’s Wells/Tour/Albery

    Channel 4

    1987THE SEE-SAW TREESadler’s Wells/Tour
    1988THE SELFISH SHELLFISH/DINOSAURS AND ALL THAT

    RUBBISH

    Sadler’s Wells/Tour
    1989THE IDEAL GNOME EXPEDITIONSadler’s Wells/Tour/

    Gardner Centre, Brighton

    1990SAVE THE HUMANSadler’s Wells/Tour
    1991THE GINGERBREAD MANSadler’s Wells/Tour/Corn

    Exchange, Cambridge

    1993DREAMS OF ANNE FRANKTour/Shaw Th
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