Barbra Streisand and Hugh Jackman lead stars in paying tribute to Stephen Sondheim after his death

Barbra Streisand, Hugh Jackman, Idina Menzel, and Jake Gyllenhaal were among the celebrities using social media to pay their respects to legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. Rest in peace: Barbra Streisand, Hugh Jackman, Idina Menzel, and Jake Gyllenhaal were among the stars using social media to pay their respects to legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday; seen in 2017 Menzel, 50, took to Twitter to mourn Sondheim, by writing: 'Goodbye dear sir. Stephen Sondheim was one of those,' Hugh Jackson tweeted Heartfelt: Gyllenhaal shared a never-before-seen photo of the star during curtain call on the opening night of Sunday in the Park with George, in which he starred as French painter Georges Seurat Gyllenhaal shared a never-before-seen photo of the star during curtain call on the opening night of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, in which he starred as French painter Georges Seurat. 60-year long career: Sondheim seen standing beside an Beyond talented: The composer had his first big hit with West Side Story when he was just 27 years old, and he went on to be praised for having 'reinvented the American musical' Bernadette Peters and Nathan Lane, two longtime interpreters of his material, starred in a table read just this year of the show which featured a book by David Ives and is thought to have been about the life of surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel. Impressive: Sondheim's career spanned more than 60 years, and he was known for co-creating Broadway theatre classics including Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods, which both went on to become hit movies; seen in 2008 Yet his admirers also often found him intimidating and inscrutable - even Elaine Stritch, who once demanded of a director: 'You're scared of me, aren't you?