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Stephen Sondheim Net Worth
Stephen Sondheim's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million
Stephen Sondheim was born on the 22nd March 1930, in New York City, USA into a Jewish family, and is a composer and playwright, considered one of the most important of the 20th century. He is the author of some of the most significant American musicals such as “A Little Night Music”, “Sweeney Todd” and “Into the Woods”. Sondheim has been active in the music industry since 1954.
How rich is the composer and playwright? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Stephen Sondheim’s net worth is as much as $20 million, as of the data presented in the early 2017. Music is the main source of Sondheim’s wealth.
Stephen Sondheim Net Worth $20 Million
To begin with, Stephen Sondheim was born into a wealthy middle class family. Shortly before his tenth birthday his parents divorced, and Stephen with his mother moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just a few meters from the residence of the most influential author of the American musical theatre, Oscar Hammerstein II, who inspired love and passion for both music and the theatre, giving him his first lessons on how to write musical comedies. Sondheim attended George School, where he actually wrote his first musical – “By George” – before studying theatre at Wlliams College in Massachusetts.
Concerning his career in theatre, at the age of 26 he wrote (alongside Leonard Bernstein) the lyrics for “West Side Story”, his first major success. After writing the lyrics for Jule Styne’s “Gypsy” in 1959 Sondheim presented himself more and more as a composer of Broadway musicals. Thus followed the musicals including “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1962), “Company” (1970), “Follies” (1971), “A Little Night Music” (1973), “Pacific Overtures” (1976), “Sweeney Todd” (1979) and “We Roll Along” (1981) all directed by Harold Prince. Stephen Sondheim composed the music and wrote the lyrics for “Anyone Can Whistle” (1964), worked as a writer with Richard Rodgers on “Do I Hear A Waltz”(1965), wrote new lyrics for Bernstein’s “Candide” (1974), and composed the music and wrote the lyrics to the love drama “Passion”. The script was written by James Lapine, and together they made “Sunday in the Park with George” (1984) for which they won a Pulitzer Prize. Sondheim’s lyrics and music are distinct, characteristic and therefore very typical. He knows how to turn the everyday things into beautiful poetry. His net worth was constantly rising with each success.
Furthermore, Sondheim composed the music for the films “Stavisky” (1974), “Reds” (1981) and wrote several songs for the film “Dick Tracy” (1992), performed by Madonna. He wrote with Anthony Perkins the screenplay for the film “The Last of Sheila”, and composed the music and lyrics for the television musical “Evening Primrose” (1966). Also several musicals were filmed including “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1966), “A Little Night Music” (1977), “Sweeney Todd” (2008) and “Into the Woods” (2015).
What is more, Sondheim has won Tony Awards among others, as the Best Composer and Best Lyricist for “Sweeney Todd”, “A Little Night Music”, “Follies” and “Company”. The latter also won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. In 1990, he received an Oscar for the song “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)” from the film “Dick Tracy”. Sondheim was honoured for his lifetime achievements with a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (2008) and a special Laurence Olivier Award (2011).
In addition, Stephen Sondheim is a board member of the Dramatists Guild, the American Association of Playwrights, Composers and Lyricists, and was chairman from 1973 to 1981 and was elected to in 1983, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1989, Stephen was appointed Visiting Professor of Drama and Musical Theatre at the University of Oxford. In September 2010, the Broadway theatre in New York was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, to coincide and celebrate Sondheim’s 80th birthday.
Finally, in the personal life of the composer, he admits to being gay, and although there’s a 50 year age difference, has been in a relationship with stage identity Jeff Romley for 15 years.
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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth
Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.
So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.
Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million
Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.
Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.
In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.
In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.
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Robert Kirkman Net Worth
Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.
So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.
Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million
Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.
The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.
In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.
In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.
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