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Biography
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was born to Herbert and Janet “Foxy” Sondheim on March 22, 1930.
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Herbert was the grandson of German-Jewish immigrants, and Foxy was the daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. Herbert worked in the garment trade, founding his own dress house, and Foxy—described as “the most pretentious, self-centered, narcissistic woman [Myra Berzoff has] ever known in [their] life—was a designer.
Herbert Sondheim played popular show tunes on the piano in their house, and Stephen Sondheim took up piano lessons at age seven. When Stephen Sondheim was a child, his father fell in love with another woman, Alicia Babé, and Herbert and Foxy divorced, on bad terms with each other; Stephen was sent to military school.
Post-divorce, Foxy “began to act very strangely”, holding Sondheim’s hand in the theatre and staring at him during a play.
Sondheim reports that she was apparently trying to seduce him as well, “Well, she would sit across from me with her legs sprea