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		<title>London Celebrates Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s 80th Birthday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As American composers and lyricists go, Stephen Sondheim is pretty special. He&#8217;s won an Oscar, 8 Tony Awards, multiple Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize. And this year, he turns 80. London&#8217;s theatreland has responded to the great man&#8217;s milestone birthday with ...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-11592" href="http://blog.visitlondon.com/2010/07/london-celebrates-stephen-sondheims-80th-birthday/sondheim_portrait/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-11592" title="Stephen Sondheim" src="http://dx9rjq5h30myv.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sondheim_portrait.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="280" /></a>As American composers and lyricists go, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a> is pretty special.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s won an Oscar, 8 Tony Awards, multiple Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize. And this year, he turns 80.</p>
<p>London&#8217;s <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/theatre/">theatreland</a> has responded to the great man&#8217;s milestone birthday with a host of special shows in his honour. This summer, if you&#8217;re a Sondheim fan in London, you&#8217;re in luck!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s just some of the Sondheim you can see in London now and in the coming months:</p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/8117130">Assassins</a> at the Union Theatre from 30 Jun-24 Jul</strong></li>
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<p>Sondheim&#8217;s multi-Tony award-winning show <strong>Assassins</strong> uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of the historical figures who tried to assassinate Presidents of the United States.</p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/8253186">Classic Moments &#8211; Hidden Treasures</a> at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 6-24 Jul</strong></li>
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<p>As well as rarely performed gems from his major musicals such as <strong>Sweeney Todd</strong> and <strong>Into the Woods</strong>, this show features treasures from Sondheim&#8217;s less familiar shows such as <strong>Anyone Can Whistle</strong> and <strong>Evening Primrose.</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/detail/3905501">Village Underground</a>, 3-6 Aug</strong></li>
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<p>Fifty of the country&#8217;s most talented youngsters take to a converted warehouse in London&#8217;s East End to perform Sondheim&#8217;s horror-opera, <strong>Sweeney Todd</strong>. The <a href="http://www.nymt.org.uk/">National Youth Music Theatre&#8217;s</a> latest show is led by director <a href="http://www.breakfastattiffanys.co.uk/cast_creative/creative/martin_constantine/">Martin Constantine</a>, whose previous credits include <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/detail/181419">English National Opera</a>, the <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/detail/605165">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> and the <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/detail/284799">National Theatre</a>.</p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7233582">Into The Woods</a> at Regents Park Open Air Theatre 6 Aug-11 Sep</strong></li>
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<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-11626" href="http://blog.visitlondon.com/2010/07/london-celebrates-stephen-sondheims-80th-birthday/intothewoods_edit_1/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-11626" title="Into The Woods plays at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre from 5 August" src="http://dx9rjq5h30myv.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/intothewoods_edit_1.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="211" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>Into The Woods</strong> weaves together the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, with a tale about a baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family. <a href="http://www.hannahwaddingham.com/">Hannah Waddingham</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Russell">Jenna Russell</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Dallimore">Helen Dallimore</a> star.</p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7834813">Prom 19: Sondheim at 80</a> at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 Jul</strong></li>
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<p>On the bill are excerpts from horror-opera <strong>Sweeney Todd</strong>, the Ingmar Bergman-inspired A<strong> Little Night Music</strong> and the fairy-tale compendium of <strong>Into the Woods</strong>, as well as excerpts from <strong>Company</strong> and <strong>Sunday in the Park with George</strong>. The cast includes <a href="http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/html/special/terfel-badboys/index.html">Bryn Terfel</a>, <a href="http://www.aboutmaria.com/">Maria Friedman</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Russell_Beale">Simon Russell Beale</a> and <a href="http://www.julianovenden.com/">Julian Ovenden</a>.</p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7502540">Passion</a> at the Donmar Warehouse from 10 Sep-27 Nov</strong></li>
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<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-11595" href="http://blog.visitlondon.com/2010/07/london-celebrates-stephen-sondheims-80th-birthday/sondheim_80_graphic/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-11595" title="Sondheim at 80 at the Donmar Warehouse" src="http://dx9rjq5h30myv.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sondheim_80_graphic.gif" alt="" width="200" height="254" /></a></p>
<p>The Donmar&#8217;s birthday offering is Passion, set in 19th-century Italy, all about obsession, beauty, power, manipulation, illness, and love. And stars <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Roger">Elena Roger</a>, <a href="http://www.scarlettstrallen.co.uk/">Scarlett Strallen</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thaxton">David Thaxton</a>.</p>
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<li><strong>Sondheim at 80 at the Donmar Warehouse from 16 Sep-7 Nov</strong></li>
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<p>The Donmar hosts a range of Sondheim-inspired events, including <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7500326">an evening with the man himself</a>, a conversation with Michael Grandage and Sam Mendes about <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7502100">staging Sondheim at the Donmar</a>, and concert performances of <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7500795">Company</a> and <a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/7502101">Merrily We Roll Along</a>.</p>
<p>Have you spotted any more Sondheim celebrations planned for London in 2010? Let us know.</p>
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