SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM Heads to the West End in October?

British stage vet RhydIan Roberts has revealed on BBC Radio that SONDHEIM ON SONDEHIM, which concluded its limited engagement on Broadway on June 27, 2010, will be playing the West End beginning in October.  While visiting Richard Bacon's program last week to promote the new stage production of WAR OF THE WORLDS in which he will be appearing, Roberts explained: "I'm due to go into a Sondheim show in the West End in October...SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM.  It's coming over from Broadway so I'll be going in there for a short stint." Click here to hear the clip (begin at the 59min mark)! This news is allegedly confirmed by Maria Friedman, according to the official Stephen Sondheim Society website.

No official announcement on the transfer has been made to date.

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, which played Broadway in a Roundabout production for a limited run from March 19 to June 27 (with an official opening on April 22) starred Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat, Leslie Kritzer, Norm Lewis, Euan Morton, Erin Mackey & Matthew Scott. The production was conceived & directed by James Lapine, with music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Although millions of fans know his songs by heart, few know much about Stephen Sondheim himself. Until now. SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM is an intimate portrait of the famed composer in his own words... and music. Through the use of exclusive interview footage, audiences got an inside look at Sondheim's personal life and artistic process. A cast of Broadway's best performed brand-new arrangements of over two dozen Sondheim tunes, ranging from the beloved to the obscure. The SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM creative team included David Loud (Music Direction & Arrangements), Michael Starobin (Orchestrations) and Dan Knechtges (Musical Staging).

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM was nominated for two Tony Awards including Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Barbara Cook) and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Dan Moses Schreier). The show also received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue, four Outer Critics Circle Nominations for Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Barbara Cook), Outstanding Set Design (Beowulf Boritt) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Ken Billington), one Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical and two Drama League nominations for Distinguished Performance (Barbara Cook & Vanessa Williams).

Roundabout has a long relationship with Stephen Sondheim having produced five Tony Award® nominated Sondheim revivals including Company (1995), Follies (2001), Tony Award® winning Assassins (2004), Pacific Overtures (2004) and Sunday in the Park with George (2008). This production of Sondheim on Sondheim marks the fourth Sondheim musical produced by Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54, where Assassins, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George all played. In 2005, Roundabout honored Sondheim with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre for the indelible impact his life's work has made on the Theatre World. In 2009 Roundabout presented a one-night only gala concert reading of A Little Night Music at Studio 54 starring Natasha Richardson, Victor Garber and Vanessa Redgrave. Roundabout celebrated Sondheim's 80th birthday and contribution to the theatre by renaming the Broadway theatre located on 43rd Street and Broadway, the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

The Broadway cast recording is now available for purchase at www.psclassics.com.