High Tor
Stage musical [unproduced]
Adaptation of the play by Maxwell Anderson
Musical Numbers
- The Wonder of You
- High Tor
- List a While, Lady
[No recordings known. "The Wonder of You" is the only song included in the collected lyrics volumes.]
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Mary Poppins
Stage musical [abandoned]
Adaptation of the stories by P. L. Travers
Musical Numbers
- Ad
- Miss Andrew
- The Sun Is Blue
- Tea
[No recordings known]
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Climb High
Stage musical (1953) [abandoned]
Musical Numbers
(according to Ken Bloom)
- All Year Long
- Climb High
- Christabel
- Nice Town
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- School of Hard Knocks
- Yoo Hoo, Hi There
Musical Numbers
(according to Stephen Banfield)
- Advice
- Bright Star
- Chris and David I (Stars Give Light) [cut song]
- Chris and David II (No Star of Night) [cut song]
- Climb High
- Cocktail Party [cut song]
- Delta Iota Mu [cut song]
- Have You Been Waiting Long
- I Don't Want to Fall in Love With You
- I'm in Love With a Boy
- In a Year from Now
- In the Tradition (Greek) [title of a proposed song; not written]
- The Lay of a Gay Young Man
- The New York Follies
- Nice Town, But--
- Not for Children
- Party, Party
- Pavement Pounding Sequence
- A Song for Humming
- This is Show Biz [cut song]
- Waltz
- When I Get Famous
- Where Do I Belong
- Yoo Hoo
Recordings
- I'm in Love with a Boy
- When I Get Famous
- Where Do I Belong
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The Man with the Squeaky Shoes
Television spy mystery [unproduced]
Teleplay by Stephen Sondheim
Copyrighted April, 1953
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The Clock
Stage musical (1953) [abandoned]
Based on the film of the same name
Musical Number
- New York [recorded as "New York Song"]
Recordings
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The Legendary Mizners
Stage musical (1953) [abandoned]
Based on the biography by Alva Johnston
[This was to later become the basis for Bounce (Wise Guys)]
Musical Number
[No recordings known]
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The Lady or the Tiger?
Television musical (1954) [abandoned]
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and Mary Rodgers
Based on the story by Frank Stockton
Musical Numbers
- Another World
- Crime Doesn't Pay
- Fair Lady
- Fanfare and Arena Sequence
- I Wonder Why
- I'm Above All That
- King and Queen Sequence
- Lovely Ladies
- Opening
Recordings
- I Wonder Why [as Once I Had a Friend]
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I Believe In You
Television play (1956) [unproduced]
Written by Elaine Carrington
Song by Stephen Sondheim
Musical Number
- They Ask Me Why I Believe in You
Recordings
- They Ask Me Why I Believe in You
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The Last Resorts
Stage musical (1956) [abandoned]
Songs by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Jean Kerr
Musical Numbers
- High Life [also known as On the River]
- I Wouldn't Change a Thing
- I've Known You All My Life [title of a proposed song; not written]
- Pour Le Sport
Recordings
- High Life
- I Wouldn't Change a Thing
- Pour Le Sport
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Ring Around the Moon
Stage musical (1957) [abandoned]
Adaptation of the play by Jean Anouilh
Musical Number
[No recordings known]
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The Jet-Propelled Couch
Television musical (1958) [abandoned]
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Stanley Richards
Adaptation of the book by Robert Lindner
Musical Numbers
- Doctor [title of a proposed song; not written]
- Nobody Reads Books
- Yes [music used for Salon at the Claridge #1 in Stavisky]
[No recordings known]
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Happily Ever After
Television musical (1959) [abandoned]
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Joseph Stein
Musical Numbers
- I Wouldn't Change a Thing
[No recordings known]
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Do You Hear a Waltz?
Television musical (1960) [unproduced]
Based on the play Time of the Cuckoos by Arthur Laurents
[later developed as a stage musical with music by Richard Rodgers, retitled Do I Hear a Waltz?]
Musical Number
Recordings
[Note: first performed in the 1998 Los Angeles production of Putting It Together and the subsequent Broadway production]
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A Pray by Blecht
[At various stages of development also known as The Race to Urga and The Exception and the Rule]
Stage musical (1968) [unproduced]
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Guare
Based on the play The Exception and the Rule by Bertolt Brecht
Produced by Stuart Ostrow
Directed by Jerome Robbins
Musical Numbers
[Sondheim contributions only]
- The Race Through the Desert (also known as I Have Got to Get There in Seven Days Flat)
- Han
- Little Secret
- The Suspicion Song
- Urga Marches
- In There (also known as Get Your Ass In There)
- Coolie's Prayer
- Paranoia Song
According to some sources, these songs had lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. He says these are titles only, the songs having never been written.
- Urga
- Give Me the Open Air
- Merchants' March
- Merchants' March [Frantic]
- Take Break Blues
- Greek Dances
- Folk Dances
- The Trial
According to some sources, these songs had music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. He says these are titles only, the songs having never been written.
- Don't Give It a Thought
- The Year of the...
[No recordings known]
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The Thing of It Is...
Film (1969) [unproduced]
Screenplay by William Goldman, based on his 1967 novel
Song by Stephen Sondheim
Recordings
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Singing Out Loud
Film musical (1992) [unproduced]
Screenplay by William Goldman
Songs by Stephen Sondheim
[Rob Reiner was slated to be the film's director]
Musical Numbers
- Dawn
- Looks
- Lunch
- Sand
- Singing Out Loud
- Water Under the Bridge
Recordings
- Dawn
- Sand
- Water Under the Bridge
Publications
- Water Under the Bridge
Secaucus NJ: Warner Bros. Publications VS6208, 1993; 14 pp.
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Muscle
One-act stage musical (1993) [abandoned]
Book by James Lapine, based on the memoir by Samuel Fussell
[Originally intended to run with Passion as an evening of two one-act musicals; as Passion developed Sondheim abandoned work on Muscle. It was later developed by Lapine with music by William Finn and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh. That version has been workshopped, but never produced.]
Musical Numbers
[Sondheim contributions only]
- Opening Sequence (Poses)
- No Problem
[No recordings known]
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Into the Woods
Film musical (1995) [unproduced]
Film version of the original stage musical
[In October 1994, a reading of a script (written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) was held at the home of director Penny Marshall. The cast included Robin Williams (the Baker), Goldie Hawn (the Baker's Wife), Cher (the Witch), Steve Martin (the Wolf), Danny DeVito (the Giant), Elijah Wood (Jack), Roseanne (Jack's mother), Bebe Neuwirth (Cinderella's stepmother), Mayim Bialik (Little Red Riding Hood), Samantha Mathis (Rapunzel), Brendan Fraser (Rapunzel's prince), Moira Kelly (Cinderella), Kyle MacLachlan (Cinderella's prince) and Michael Jeter (Cinderella's father)]
Musical Numbers
(New songs only)
Recordings
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