By the next week, he was gone.Īt the show last month, "Patti LuPone stepped forward and dedicated our performance to Steve Sondheim. Sondheim was in attendance at Company's first preview back on Broadway post-shutdown. RELATED: Stephen Sondheim, Legend of Musical Theater on Broadway, Dead at 91: Report "We were celebrating, we had crossed that barrier," says Elder, "and then this news came." Before the pandemic shut down live theater, the production only made it to performance number nine. It was the company's tenth performance of the show - and they thought they had hit a milestone. Our director Marianne Elliott told us that Steve had passed, that it had been easy and that his loved ones were with him." "We gathered in a circle, many of us holding hands or with our arms around each other. "After the matinee, our producers gathered us on stage, which is never good news," Claybourne Elder, who stars in the current revival of Sondheim's Company, tells PEOPLE.
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