Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with transforning musical theatre, died on Friday at the age of 91, his publicist said.Sondheim – renowned for musicals including West Side Story and Sweeney Todd – died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, spokesperson Kathryn Zuckerman told Reuters news agency by email, saying she had little additional information. The news was reported earlier by the New York Times which said he had celebrated Thanksgiving with friends the day before.“There are no words. He had them all. And the music. He was incomparable,” the UK-based Stephen Sondheim Society, which is dedicated to promoting and studying his work, tweeted along with three heart emojis, one of them broken.
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