Patti LuPone on Company and Losing Stephen Sondheim: “We Are a Unit, and We Are Processing Grief, Joy, Pressure”

In the two weeks since Stephen Sondheim’s death at the age of 91, one of the most touching tributes—and there have been many—of the musical-theater legend came from longtime collaborator and current Company star Patti LuPone. The seven-minute video package for CBS News Sunday Morning (intended to air for Sondheim’s 90th birthday in March 2020) offers a career retrospective. An interview between Sondheim and one of his many musical muses, the exchange is all the more moving a year and a half later. In its final moments, an emotional LuPone gets the opportunity to say, simply, thank-you. “I have to… Read Full Article