at his Roxbury, Conn. home in November, a day after celebrating Thanksgiving, his lawyer and friend F. Richard Pappas announced at the time.
Stephen Sondheim’s personal effects, the rights to his music and literary works and everything else will go into the Stephen J. Sondheim Revocable Trust.The world-renowned theater great designated 20 people and charities as beneficiaries to his trust, including his husband Jeffrey Romley, the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of New York City, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Dramatists Guild Fund and the Irish Repertory Theater Company.
Other inheritors are home designer Charles Peter Wooster, who was Sondheim’s close friend and lived on Sondheim’s Roxbury Connecticut property in a carriage house, and Rob Girard, a gardener who tended to Wooster’s garden for 14 years,Stephen Sondheim designated the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of New York City, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as trust beneficiaries.
Stephen Sondheim was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Barack Obama in 2015.Sondheim “never failed to honor us with his staunch support … especially of our musicals and musical adaptations,” their statement continued. “Having ‘Himself’ in our audience, while absolutely terrifying, confirmed our right to venture into the mysterious worlds in which he was the undisputed master.
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