The Oxford handbook of Sondheim studies /
Gordon, Robert,1951 November 28-editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sondheim's genius / by Stephen Banfield -- Sondheim and postmodernism / by Robert McLaughlin -- "You've got to be carefully taught" : Oscar Hammerstein's influence on Sondheim / by Dominic Symonds -- "Old situations, new complications" : tradition and experiment in a funny thing happened on the way to the forum / by Robert Gordon -- Anyone can whistle as experimental theatre / by David Savran -- The Prince-Sondheim legacy / by Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen -- "Growing pains" : revising Merrily we roll along / by Andrew Buchman -- "Give us more to see" : the visual world of Stephen Sondheim's musicals / by Bud Coleman -- Orchestrators in their own words : the sound of Sondheim in the 21st century / by Nathan Matthews -- "Nothing more than just a game" : the American dream goes bust in road show / by Garret Eisler -- "It takes two" : the doubling of actors and roles in Sunday in the park with George' / by Olaf Jubin -- "Something just broke" : assassins after the Iraq war : a production and its reception / by Joanne Gordon -- Sondheim on the London stage / by Matt Wolf -- "And one for Mahler" : an opera director's reflections on Sondheim in the subsidized theatre / by Keith Warner -- Evening primrose : Sondheim and Goldman's television musical / by Robynn J. Stilwell -- From screen to stage : a little night music and passion / by Geoffrey Block -- More Sondheim : original music for movies / by Roger Hickman -- Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd : the stage musical and Tim Burton's film version / by David Thomson -- A little night music : the cynical operetta / by Joseph Swain -- Croaks into song : Sondheim tackles Greek frogs / by Marianne McDonald -- Sweeney Todd : from melodrama to musical tragedy / by Millie Taylor -- "Careful the spell you cast" : into the woods and the uses of disenchantment / by Ben Francis -- Keeping company with Sondheim's women / by Stacy Ellen Wolf -- Follies : musical pastiche and cultural archaeology / by Robert Lawson-Peebles -- Narratives of progress and tragedy in pacific overtures / by Paul Filmer -- Queer Sondheim / by Scott F. Stoddart -- Sondheim's America ; America's Sondheim / by Raymond Knapp.
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