Broadway stars mourned Stephen Sondheim’s passing on November 26. “Wicked” star Idina Menzel Tweet, “Goodbye dear sir. We will spend our lives trying to make you proud.” “I am so so sad to lose my friend Steve Sondheim[.] He gave me so much to sing about,” Bernadette Peters Write. “Thank you Steve. Thank you,”TweetAudra McDonald, pictured with the composer.
Paul Rudnick, playwright and novelist TweetSondheim “Not just a genius but a truly wonderful person. He’d go see everything and encourage young artists (like so many, I received a personal note which thrills me to this day.) He loved the theater; he was and will always be the theater.”
“Stephen Sondheim- thank you for all of the gifts you have given to the theatre,” Tweet Brian Stokes Mitchell. “You have been an inspiration to me and it has been a joy working with you, and being in your presence.”
“His writing is the singular reason I wanted to be a musical theater actor. No one will ever come close to his genius,” Jesse Tyler Ferguson WriteSondheim.