The Stephen Sondheim Society

Events in 2010 celebrating Sondheim's 80th Birthday

UK Events

Date	Title	Who	Venue
January 28^th	RADA Night of Sondheim	Michael Peavoy (2009 Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year)	RADA
February	Essential Musicals	Series to include Sondheim interview	BBC Radio 2
February 2^nd – 13^th	Sweeney Todd	Northern Ireland premiere (Peter Corry and Nuala McKeever)	Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, N Ireland
February 17^th	Platform Talk	Stephen Sondheim	National Theatre
March	Stephen Sondheim Society AGM and panel	To be confirmed	To be confirmed
March 10^th - April 16^th	Anyone Can Whistle	Primavera Productions	Jermyn Street Theatre, London
March 22^nd	A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim @ 80	All Star Productions	Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre, Walthamstow
March 24^th – 27^th	Marry Me A Little	Everyman Theatre	Everyman Theatre studio, Cheltenham
March 21st	Elaine Paige on Sunday	Show devoted to Sondheim	BBC Radio2
The following two concerts are the same production
Sat April 3^rd 7.30 pm	Sondheim 80th Birthday Concert	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Maria Friedman and Graham Bickley	Cadogan Hall, London
Sun April 4^th 7.30 pm	Sondheim 80th Birthday Concert	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Maria Friedman and Graham Bickley	Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Sat April 10^th 7.30pm	Side by Side: A tribute to Stephen Sondheim in his 80th birthday year	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis	Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Sun April 11^th	Sondheim 80^th Birthday Gala	Richard Douglas Productions	London Palladium
May 2^nd	The Night of 1000 Voices includes a birthday celebration	Hugh Wooldridge	Royal Albert Hall.
May 19^th – June 12^th	Sweeney Todd		Dundee Rep
Sun June 6^th	The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year		Queen’s Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
August 5^th – Sept 11^th	Into The Woods	Open Air Theatre	Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London
No date confirmed	Merrily We Roll Along	Paul Kerryson, director	Curve, Leicester
No date confirmed	Prom partly devoted to Sondheim	Proms	Royal Albert Hall
No date confirmed	Road Show

2011	Company	Daniel Evans, director and actor	Crucible, Sheffield
2011	Sweeney Todd	Michael Ball & Imelda Staunton	Chichester Festival Theatre

European Events

Date	Title	Who	Venue
February 15^th – 20^th	A Little Night Music	Le Chatelet	Paris
10 concerts in Scandinavia and one in Denmark including:
No date confirmed	Sondheim 80^th Birthday Concert	Varmlands Opera	Tivoli, Copenhagen
No date confirmed	Sondheim 80^th Birthday Concert	Malmo Opera	Norwegian radio & TV
No date confirmed	Sondheim 80^th Birthday Concert	Norlands Opera	Swedish radio & TV
No date confirmed	Sondheim 80^th Birthday Concert		Herning Kongrescenter, Stockholm
	Sondheim 80^th Birthday Concert	Metropole Orchestra conducted by Jan Stulen	Holland Nederlands TV & radio
Opens Fri February 19^th	Somarnattens Leende (A Little Night Music)		Stadsteater, Stockholm
Opens Wed April 28^th, runs til June	Sweeney Todd		Odense Theatre, Denmark
No date confirmed	Sweeney Todd		Dramaten, Stockholm

U.S. Events:

Date	Title	Who	Venue
Opened December 13^th 2009	A Little Night Music.	Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, directed by Trevor Nunn	Walter Kerr Theatre
January 5^th – 30th	At Home At The Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim. . . One Song At A Time again,". Show times will be Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:45 PM. There will be a $125 music charge for all performances. The Café Carlyle is located within The Carlyle Hotel (35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue). For reservations call (212) 744-1600.	Elaine Stritch	Cafe Carlyle
Thurs March 4^th	An Intimate Exchange with the "Master of the Musical”	Stephen Sondheim talks about the state of American musical theater and reflections on his own creative process, followed by audience Q & A	Harris Theater, Chicago, IL
Mon March 15^th & Tues March 16^th	Sondheim: The Birthday Concert with Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jason Danieley, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Conductor is Paul Gemignani and Lonny Price directs	The New York Philharmonic	Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Previews March 19^th, opens April 22^nd , runs til June 13^th	Sondheim on Sondheim, a new Broadway musical starring Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Michael Arden and Leslie Kritzer, will premiere at Broadway's Directed and conceived by James Lapine with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Punctuated with interview footage of the songwriter (originally known as iSondheim)		Studio 54 at 254 W at 54th Street, New York
Mon March 22^nd	2010 Spring Gala: Sondheim 80.	Roundabout Theatre Company, fundraising gala	To be confirmed
Thurs April 8^th – Sun April 11^th	Anyone Can Whistle concert version	Encores!	New York City Center
Mon April 26^th	Sondheim Birthday Celebration Gala	Directed by John Doyle	New York City Center
Thurs May 6^th – Sat May 8^th	Sondheim at 80	NSO Pops: Marvin Hamlisch, conductor	Kennedy Center, Washington DC
Sat July 31^st	Sondheim 80th Birthday Celebration	Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, George Hearn; Paul Gemignani, conductor; Lonny Price, director	Ravinia Festival Pavilion, Ravinia IL
No date confirmed	Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano This three-concert series,will feature the work of 30 commissioned composers creating solo piano pieces based on the music of Stephen Sondheim. Currently in development, the project includes distinguished artists ranging from Milton Babbitt and William Bolcom to Steve Reich and Daniel Bernard Roumain	Anthony de Mare	The Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York

NB: Please keep us informed of any events you hear about which aren't featured here by emailing the details to: administrator@sondheim.org. We will then add the details to this page.