What was different about Stephen Sondheim musicals.

What was so different about Sondheims musicals? Over the course of Sondheim's career he has experimented with all sorts of different kinds of musicals. Each one he was involved with was unique and different to others at the time. Right through from West Side Story to Passione, Sondheim taken something weather it be art, life, horror or comedy and put it to music. His first Broadway musical was West Side Story. He worked as a …

…anned over 4 decades and every one of his musicals had been innovative, different and continually pushing the boundaries of what was known as popular theatre. His choices of themes were always interesting and he often chose them because they had never even been considered for a musical. The musicals were often controversial but this was what seemed to make them so successful. Sondheim had managed, with his experimentation's to change they way musicals were performed.