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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Stephen Sondheim, the nonpareil Broadway composer whose decades-long career delivered brilliant musical productions from “West Side Story” to “Sweeney Todd” to “Into the Woods,” died Friday. The oft-honored songwriter was 91. His sudden death at his Roxbury, Connecticut, home, was announced by his friend and lawyer, Richard Pappas, who said Sondheim had celebrated Thanksgiving in Connecticut at a dinner with friends. Sondheim’s death was first reported in The New York Times. Sondheim, a protege of acclaimed songwriter Oscar Hammerstein II, collected a record eight Tony Awards — incl…