A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Funeral

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

RIP Stephen Sondheim, merrily he rolls along into his grave at the age of 91.
Nobody had him on their 2021 death list, did they?

[touchingcloth]

No, but I had him on like '16 - '19.

Into the deads.

Gondheim.

Sweeny Dead. The demon barber of Fleet...











...Dead.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Sooner or later ( I always get my man) ( you have to imagine the Grim Reaper singing this).

[Keebleman]

He's someone whose relatively young age always brings me up short, even now.  It's remarkable that the author of West Side Story was only just into his 90s.

[idunnosomename]

rip oscillations

[touchingcloth]

I met Stephen Somdheim at a charity do once. He was incredibly down to his sex dungeon, and very funny.

[Butchers Blind]

Send in the corpse

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

....or is he losing his life?





(Yes) ( Present Perfect Tense would have been more appropriate, orbviously, but that would have spoilt the song reference).

[touchingcloth]

But into the woods,
  into the woods,
  Into the woods
  to Grandmother's house
  and grave before dark!

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Finale.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Getting Buried Today.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

While I'm Not Around.

[Ant Farm Keyboard]

The Last of Sondheim

[Keebleman]

Side by Side by (other) Sondheim(s in the Sondheim family crypt).

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

A Little Priest ( delivering the euology at the funeral)

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Too Many Mournings

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Take Me Out Of The World

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I Never Do Anything Twice ( Especially Not This*)












(*Carking it)

[touchingcloth]

(Not) Being Alive.

[phantom_power]

I keep seeing pictures on Twitter and thinking Jermaine Clement has died

[idunnosomename]

Did he write any songs called No something? If so No Age

[Keebleman]

Looking at the Stephen Sondheim page on Wikipedia, and among several surprising things (that letter from his mother! My God!) is the news that he was a major movie buff.  "Movies were, and still are, my basic language."  The Last of Sheila doesn't seem such an aberration now (although the fact that in the 50s he was a writer on a sitcom based on the Topper films still does).  Here is a list of his forty favourite films.  It is probably the most eclectic such list I have ever seen, to the extent that I wonder if he was maybe having a private joke.

https://mobile.twitter.com/J_fassler/status/1464411305041960962

[Twonty Gostelow]

The Wiki page also mentions his love of British cryptic crosswords, but doesn't mention that he also occasionally entered The Observer's Ximenes clue-writing competition, which continues today as Azed.
http://www.andlit.org.uk/azed/by_cluer.php?series=B&cluer_id=3866

I know there are a few CaBbers who are Azed solvers.

[pancreas]

Tuesday in the cark with Steve