{"id":73135,"date":"2021-11-29T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=73135"},"modified":"2021-11-29T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:40:07","slug":"the-scoop-toronto-dims-marquee-lights-for-stephen-sondheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/11\/29\/the-scoop-toronto-dims-marquee-lights-for-stephen-sondheim\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto Dims Marquee Lights For Stephen Sondheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Stephen_Sondheim-dim_lights.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen_Sondheim\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the passing of theatre legend Stephen Sondheim at age 91 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/26\/theater\/stephen-sondheim-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this past Friday<\/a>, Mirvish theatres have confirmed they will dim their lights in his honour on November 30 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1965, a total of nine touring productions of musicals by Sondheim were produced in Toronto \u2014 most appearing on stages in Toronto\u2019s musical-friendly entertainment district.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Royal Alexandra Theatre<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1965\u00a0<em>Gypsy<\/em> starring June Wilson &amp; Arlene Meadows<\/li>\n<li>1971\u00a0<em>Company\u00a0<\/em>starring George Chakiris &amp; Elaine Stritch<\/li>\n<li>1973\u00a0<em>Twigs<\/em>, by George Furth, with incidental music by Sondheim, starring Sada Thompson<\/li>\n<li>1974\u00a0<em>Gypsy<\/em> starring Angela Lansbury<\/li>\n<li>1974\u00a0<em>A Little Night Music<\/em> starring Jean Simmons<\/li>\n<li>1977\u00a0<em>Side by Side<\/em> by Sondheim starring Georgia Brown<\/li>\n<li>1982\u00a0<em>Sweeney Todd<\/em>\u00a0starring Ross Petty &amp; June Havoc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The Princess of Wales Theatre<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2007 <em>Sweeney Todd<\/em> starring Alexander Gemignani &amp; Judy Kaye<\/li>\n<li>2010\u00a0<em>An Evening with Stephen Sondheim<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2010<em>\u00a0A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\u00a0<\/em>starring Sean Cullen &amp; Bruce Dow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cSondheim was and will always remain a titan of theatre,\u201d said David Mirvish. \u201cHe wrote songs the way Shakespeare wrote plays, the way Picasso painted pictures, the way Beethoven and Mozart composed symphonies, the way Tolstoy wrote novels. Although he always acknowledged his collaborators and spoke passionately about how the theatre was a collective creation, he himself was a singular artist, the likes of which has never been seen before and may never be seen again. The world is poorer with his passing, but what a body of work he has given us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sondheim last appeared in Toronto on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.playbill.com\/article\/stephen-sondheim-makes-rare-toronto-appearance-dec-6-com-174156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10, 2010<\/a>, for <em>An Evening with Stephen Sondheim<\/em>. The event was a celebration of\u00a0his 80th\u00a0birthday. It included a rare live interview from the stage with critic Robert Cushman.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Highest Honours<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The tradition of dimming marquee lights at the standard 8 p.m. curtain time originated in the Broadway Theatre in New York City. It signifies a symbolic tribute to a celebrated artist who has passed. It serves as the greatest honour the theatre world can bestow upon an artist.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirvish theatres have confirmed they will dim their lights in honour of the late Stephen Sondheim on November 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":73136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,4780,39,63],"tags":[27978,20677,6283],"yst_prominent_words":[8345,7292,20630,6616,19848,32258,10596,19845,19856,8973,21585],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Stephen_Sondheim-dim_lights.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-j1B","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73138,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73135\/revisions\/73138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73135"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=73135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}