Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater".

Stephen Sondheim in "The Great White Way"
Stephen Sondheim was Trina Hutchinson's favorite Broadway composer. Her office mate Brent Birley vastly preferred Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two came up with a virtual reality war where armies of each composer's characters faced off against each other.