Stephen Sondheim - A Casebook

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

General Editor's Note, Kimball King * Introduction, Joanne Gordon * Chronology * Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim, Laura Hanson * Comedy Tonight!: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way tot the Forum, Lois Kivesto * Company 25 Years Later, John Olson * Nixon's America and Follies: Reappraising a Musical Theater Classic, James Fisher * The Last of Sheila: Sondheim as Master Games-Player, Douglas Braverman * On Performing Sondheim ( A Little Night Music Revisited), David Craig * More Beautiful than True or Never Mind the Small Disaster: The Art of Illusion in Pacific Overtures, Leonard Fleischer * Psychology, Evil and Sweeney Todd or, Don't I Know You, Mister?, Judith Schlesinger * Sondheim: The Idealist, Mari Cronin * Let the Pupil Show the Master Stephen Sondheim and Oscar Hammerstein II, Andrew Milner * Portrait of the Artist: Sunday in the Park with George and Revolutionary Musical Drama, Edward T. Bonahue, Jr. * Assassins and the Concept Musical, Scott Miller * Passion: Not Just Another Simple Love Story, Gary Konas * Revisiting Greece: the Sondheim Chorus, Barbara Means Fraser * Contributors * Index

About the author

Joanne Gordon

Product details

• Assisted by: Joanne Gordon (Editor), Gordon Joanne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1999
• EAN: 9780815335863
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3586-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Weight: 330 g
• Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Theatre Studies, American English, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Music of film and stage, Literary studies: plays and playwrights