If you want to have Sky Glass in more than one room, you need to pay an extra £10 per month, plus a £50 one-off payment for each Sky Stream Puck – this is the device you need in order to add Sky Glass to a standard TV.
That these aren't part of the core Sky Glass service seems ridiculous.Īnd while Sky Ultimate includes Sky TV channels such as Sky Atlantic and Sky Max, it doesn't include Sports or Cinema, which will cost you an extra £25 and £11 respectively, should you want them. While the TV supports HDR and Dolby Atmos, you need to pay an extra £5 per month to add them to your Sky subscription. So that means the cheapest Sky Glass is really £39 per month, rather than the £13 per month headline figure.Īnd we're not done yet. You also need to subscribe to at least Sky Ultimate, which will set you back £26 per month. Because those payments cover only the cost of the TV itself and not the Sky subscription. Here's the breakdown of Sky Glass packages in a more digestible format:īut that's not the whole story, inevitably. So the Medium is £17 over 48 months (plus £10 upfront) or £34 over 24 months (plus £20 upfront), while the Large is £21 over 48 months (again, plus £10 upfront) or £42 over 24 months (£20 upfront).
The Medium and Large versions of Sky Glass can be bought over the same terms. That will take the total price paid to £644. If a four-year contract feels like too much of a commitment, you can instead opt to pay for your Sky Glass TV over two years, at a rate of £26 per month, with a £20 upfront payment. That's not a mistake: it's actually cheaper in the long run to pay monthly for the TV than to pay for it in one go. There is a £10 upfront payment but, even then, the total price paid is actually £634. Maths whizzkids might have noticed that £13 times 48 doesn't equal £649. The eye-popping £13 per month figure is for the Small Sky Glass model, paid for over 48 months. Large measures 65 inches and will set you back £1049.īut Sky Glass can be paid for monthly, and here's where things get interesting. Lyricist Sir Tim Rice described him as a “master musical man”, while Barbra Streisand, whose The Broadway Album featured lyrics written by Sondheim, tweeted: “Thank the Lord that Sondheim lived to be 91 years old so he had the time to write such wonderful music and GREAT lyrics! May he Rest In Peace.Small is a 43-inch set that costs £649 if paid for upfront. He said Sondheim’s contribution to theatre “will never be equalled”. Phantom Of The Opera creator Andrew Lloyd Webber was among others who paid tribute, describing Sondheim as a “musical theatre giant of our times, an inspiration not just to two but to three generations”. In the tribute, reported by ABC News, the director said the pair had become “good friends” in recent times and added Spielberg will “miss him very much, but he left a body of work that has taught us, and will keep teaching us, how hard and how absolutely necessary it is to love”. Spielberg said Sondheim was a “gigantic figure in American culture – one of our country’s greatest songwriters, a lyricist and composer of real genius, and a creator of some of the most glorious musical dramas ever written”. What else would I do with my time but write?”Īhead of the release of the film adaptation of West Side Story, a musical for which Sondheim wrote the lyrics, he told the publication the big screen version – directed by Steven Spielberg – was “just great”, adding that there would be “surprises” for people who feel they know the musical. Speaking of his determination to keep working, he told the paper: “What else am I going to do?” I’m too old now to do a lot of traveling, I’m sorry to say. Your contribution to theatre will never be equalled. In an interview with the New York Times less than a week before his death, he said of his health: “Outside of my sprained ankle, OK.”įarewell Steve, the musical theatre giant of our times, an inspiration not just to two but to three generations. Sondheim added that he had “always hated my last name”, insisting: “It just doesn’t sing”. The composer also won an Academy Award for the song Sooner or Later from the film Dick Tracy, five Olivier Awards and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honour.īritish theatrical producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who named a venue after Sondheim in late 2019, said theatre had “lost one of its greatest geniuses and the world has lost one of its greatest and most original writers”.Īlmost a decade earlier in 2010, when the Henry Miller Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, he said he was “thrilled, but deeply embarrassed”. Six of Sondheim’s musicals won Tony Awards for best score and he received a Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park.