Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim is an American lyricist and composer (b. 1930) who wrote many classic Broadway musicals.

For a number of years he also constructed ingenious and diabolically difficult crossword-like puzzles for New York magazine.

## Sondheim musicals[edit]

1. West Side Story (1957) (lyrics)
2. Gypsy (1959) (lyrics)
3. Company (1970)
4. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)
5. Into the Woods (1987)
6. Assassins (1990)