The qutn of whether the lead character Stephen Sondheim's semal 1970 mil <em>Company</em> is gay has been hoverg over the show for years. Now, Sondheim, along wh director John Tiffany, is reworkg the show to make explicly clear.
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM GAY, NET WORTH, FAY
Stephen Sondheim Gay?
Stephen is an openly gay person who revealed his sexualy at the age of 40. His first partner (after he publicly went gay) was Peter Jon, a dramatist by profsn. In her prehensive bgraphy of the poser, thor Meryle Secrt discsed his stggle wh his inty as a gay man and the social prsur of the tim.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM REWORKG SEMAL 'COMPANY' TO MAKE LEAD GAY
“I was never easy wh beg a homosexual, which plited thgs, ” Sondheim admted an terview wh Secrt.
Durg his long life he wnsed homosexualy move om beg classified as a mental illns to beg seen as a social disorr and, fally, to the state of general acceptance that we have today, ratified by the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015. Comg of age at a time when homosexualy was medilly diagnosed as a disease, Sondheim unrwent psychotherapy, which seemed the only solutn. He had seen his fellow Wt Si Story llaborators all grapplg wh their sexualy as gay men.
Gay men have adopted songs wrten for Sondheim’s female characters as anthems for explag their own feelgs toward another man, such as “Losg My Md, ” a lament by a person who’s hopelsly love. Director Marianne Williamson and Sondheim transformed Amy to Jamie, played to chaotic perfectn by Matt Doyle, turng “(Not) Gettg Married Today” to a gay claratn. And this wasn’t the first time Sondheim picted a gay story his shows.