‘Stephen Sondheim to receive 'Master Storyteller’ award at Arden :: Blogs :: The Naked Ci... Page 2 of 13 Contests Love/Hate © LLove You Hate You ost Your FREE Classi — + theater Stephen Sondheim to receive 'Master Storyteller’ award at Arden By Andrew Milner Published: 05/297015 0 Comments Posted mag + ume £3] baa fe "God / I mean the man's a god / Wrote the score to Sweeney Todd / With a nod / To de Sade / Well, he's odd / Well, he's God!" — Sondheim on Sondheim (2010). Since Stephen Sondheim's Feburary 2009 Q&A with journalist Frank Rich at the Kimmel Center, there's been a renewed interest in the lyricist/composer's work: Bernadette Peters starred in Broadway revivals of 1971's Follies and 1973's A Little Night Music; Henry Miller's Theater in New York was renamed for Sondheim: his two-volume collection of lyrics (Finishing the Hat/Look, I Made a Hat) was published; an all-star production of 1970's Company (featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Hendricks and Stephen Colbert) was given a DVD and limited theatrical release; and, most visibly, Rob Marshall's recent major motion picture version of 1987's Into the Woods got critical raves and grossed $210 million worldwide. And the 85-year-old Sondheim announced he's currently working on a new musical, adapting two Bufiuel films, Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company has become one of the country's leading Sondheim exponents since the 1990s, with productions of his shows on a near-annual basis — through June 28 they're staging Passion, his 1994 Tony-winning musical about romantic obsession in 19th century Italy (see our review here). But on June 1 the Arden will present Sondheim with their first-ever Master Storyteller Award, accompanying an evening of some of his greatest standards, For more information, check here. Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. 2" St, 215-922-1122. ardentheawre.org. Tweet 4) http://citypaper nev/stephen-sondheim-to-receive-master-storyteller-award-at-arden/ 5/29/2015