Stephen Sondheim Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

It's hard to imagine saying "this is the tribute he deserves" of any one Stephen Sondheim tribute. But this two-and-a-half hour, nearly all-showstopper webcast was just that.

Meryl Streep, 70, can do no wrong! The Oscar winner is seemingly getting through quarantine with a cocktail (or two), according to her appearance on the virtual 90th birthday concert for legendary composer Stephen Sondheim! Meryl popped up on the star-studded special to sing “The Ladies Who Lunch” alongside Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald, and expertly shook up her very own martini at the same time!

It was hard enough when Broadway shut down, says Raúl Esparza, but letting Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday pass without a celebration? Impossible.

Some of Broadway's brightest lights will participate in a celebration of one of the Great White Way's most beloved lyricists/composers, Stephen Sondheim, on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.

Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald are set to join an all-star line-up in a special virtual concert to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday.

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 22-28:

The first proper images from Steven Spielberg’s version of the classic musical movie West Side Story have been revealed online ahead of the film’s release later this year. The movie will hit cinemas (hopefully) in December with the likes of Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler amongst the cast. It will be based on the musical of the same name by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

In Knives Out, Daniel Craig's silver-tongued private eye sings a few bars of "Losing My Mind," a torch song from Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical Follies. Writer-director Rian Johnson tells The Hollywood Reporter that he was listening to the cast recording "nonstop" while writing the screenplay. But like the film's plot, there's more to this.

In Knives Out, Daniel Craig's silver-tongued private eye sings a few bars of "Losing My Mind," a torch song from Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical Follies. Writer-director Rian Johnson tells The Hollywood Reporterthat he was listening to the cast recording "nonstop" while writing the screenplay.