During an interview with NPR in 2013, Sondheim said:"I love the theatre as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me."Several of Sondheim's hit musicals were later turned into movies, including 2014's Into The Woods starring Meryl Steep, and 2007's Sweeney Todd featuring Johnny Depp."We shall be singing your songs forever," actress Lea Salonga said.
Producer Cameron Mackintosh wrote:"The theatre has lost one of its greatest geniuses and the world has lost one of its greatest and most original writers. Sadly, there is now a giant in the sky."Andrew Lloyd Webber tweeted:"Farewell Steve, the musical theatre giant of our times, an inspiration not just to two but to three generations. Your contribution to theatre will never be equalled.
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