Reading Stephen Sondheim
Subtitle: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780815328322
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Musical theatre; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; United States; Musicals; Music Of The 20th Century; Theater Music; Performing Arts; American English; English; Music; USA; Genres & Styles - Musicals; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Theater / General; History & Criticism - General; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Sondheim, Stephen
First sentence: In 1974, Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove collaborated on a musical adaptation of The Frogs, which does for Aristophanes pretty much what they had done for Plautus eight years earlier in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.