Stephen Sondheim To Pick Up The Pen Again + Rest Of Interview.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 2/29/12 at 1:24pm

Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim told The London Evening Standard that he is working on a musical with David Ives, the playwright known for Venus in Fur, All in the Timing and adaptations of classics.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-24039487-in-new-york-were-starved-of-plays.do

The paper reported that Tony Award winner Sondheim, 81, has written "20 or 30 minutes" of the new piece. "Having spent the better part of four years writing two books [of his collected lyrics], I'm really rusty," he told the paper. "I sit at the piano and think, 'Where's middle C?' Any muscles, as you know, atrophy when you don't use them, and I haven't been using my musical muscles."

Sondheim told Playbill.com on Feb. 29, "It's an idea I've had for a long time and that it springs indirectly from a moment in a play of David's." He left it at that. Ives declined to comment.


Updated On: 2/29/12 at 01:24 PM