Isn’t It Rich?

Broadway luminaries gathered in Times Square on Nov. 28, 2021, to sing Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday”; from his “Sunday in the Park With George”; as they honored the life and legacy of the storied composer and lyricist, who died Nov. 26. Jenny Anderson via TCA

Commentary

The death of composer Stephen Sondheim at 91 is more than the end of an era. It is the end of a chain of great Broadway musicals dating back to the 1920s when Jerome Kern’s “Showboat” first dazzled theater audiences.