First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Presents a collection of lyrics from the composer, and offers insights into his creative process, relationships with other legends of American theater, experiences in the theater, collaborations, and most significant successes and failures.
Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friend - ship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.
Editor Peter Gethers, working with Sondheim, has selected for this volume lyrics from across his career, drawn from shows including West Side Story, Gypsy, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George ...
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is the first reference volume devoted to the works of this prolific composer and lyricist.
Mommy on the Telephone (1961) (Birthday song for Mary Rodgers Beaty) By the time she was thirty, Mary was an exceptionally busy woman: she was raising three children (Todd, Nina and Kim) as well as writing children's books and songs and ...
Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of ...
As in Citron's previously critically acclaimed books in this series, great significance is given to the impact their youthful training and private lives have had upon their amazing creative output.
1955), a nondescript twenty-one-year-old obsessed with actress Jodie Foster; Charles Guiteau (1841–1882), a deluded political aspirant convinced he deserved to be named ambassador to France; Giuseppe Zangara (1900–1933), ...
In shows such as "A Little Night Music", "Sweeney Todd", and "Sunday in the Park with George", Sondheim's music and lyrics are inextricably woven into the fabric of the entire work.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.