West End Theatre lights to be dimmed to commemorate the death of Stephen Sondheim

The Society of London Theatre has said that the West End’s lights will be dimmed at 7pm on Monday 29 November 2022.

The act marks the death of the musicals composer and lyricist on Friday 26 November in the US, aged 91.

Tributes for Sondheim have poured in from across the West End, Broadway and beyond.

Stephen Sondheim was one of the 20th century’s greatest musicals composers, with work including Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George and Into the Woods.

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