Will Stephen Sondheim Ever Win The EGOT?

“post humorous”?

I don't know much about Emmy rules, but both the Oscars and the Tonys have given posthumous nominations for writing, in cases where the creators of the adaptation decided to give the source author writing credit. TS Elliott for the "book" of Cats, and August Wilson for the "adapted" screenplay of the Fences film.

It's trickier with Sondheim because he generally wrote songs, not scripts. But what if someone did a word-for-word remake of Last of Sheila as a TV movie, or turned Getting Away With Murder into a TV Movie? Would the Emmys have a rule against him being eligible then?

Incidentally, I'd happily watch either of those.

Jordan Catalano said: "Maybe an unpopular opinion but the EGOT status has lost a lot of its “prestige” (for lack of a better word coming to mind) as of late since anyone who wants to put some cash in and have their name associated with a project can do so."

It's nothing but an acronym coined by the less-famous "Miami Vice" actor and popularized by a sitcom. It's amazing anyone's ever taken it too seriously.

It's not out of the question. Along with The Last of Sheila, he and Anthony Perkins wrote treatments/scripts for two additional murder mysteries, The Chorus Girl Murder Case (a musical) and Crime and Variations. According to an interview with Sondheim from the 90s, the latter is/was owned by HBO.

http://www.sondheim.com/features/stephen_sondheim.html

I'm not sure how complete either script is. There's been a lot of interest in Sondheim since his death and an increase in popularity in whodunnits and murder mysteries (Knives Out, Branagh's Poirot, etc). You'd think there would be some interest in producing them for TV or film.

Updated On: 1/20/24 at 10:36 PM

MemorableUserName said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Maybe an unpopular opinion but the EGOT status has lost a lot of its “prestige” (for lack of a better word coming to mind) as of late since anyone who wants to put some cash in and have their name associated with a project can do so."

It's nothing but an acronym coined by the less-famous "Miami Vice" actor and popularized by a sitcom. It's amazing anyone's ever taken it too seriously."

100% agree. Some recent adds are a joke.

If he had even cared, I imagine Sondheim would have been more pleased with his Pulitzer and Kennedy Center Honors, in addition to all the other ones that I am not thinking about right now.

Marlothom said: "Particularly those "producer" Tony winners."

and the Emmys for singing a song from a show the person is performing on Broadway on a talk show - Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program - although that category seems to have been discontinued. .

Broadway winners were: Cynthia Erivo & Cast of The Color Purple

Cast of The Band's Visit

Ben Platt and the cast of Dear Evan Hansen