Stephen Sondheim
Subtitle: a casebook
By: edited by Joanne Gordon.
Contributors: Gordon, Joanne Lesley, 1947-
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Garland reference library of the humanities -- v. 1916. -- Casebooks on modern dramatists -- v. 23; Garland reference library of the humanities -- vol. 1916.; Garland reference library of the humanities -- vol. 23.
Publisher: Garland
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Sondheim, Stephen -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction /  Joanne Gordon; title: Chronology; title: Broadway babies. Images of women in the musicals of Stephen Sondheim /  Laura Hanson; title: Comedy tonight! A funny thing happened on the way to the forum /  Lois Kivesto; title: Company; title: 25 years later /  John Olson; title: Nixon's America and Follies. Reappraising a musical theater classic /  James Fisher; title: Last of Sheila. Sondheim as master games-player /  Douglas Braverman; title: On performing Sondheim. A Little Night Music revisited /  David Craig; title: "More beautiful than true" or "never mind a small disaster": the art of illusion in Pacific Overtures /  Leonard Fleischer.; title: Psychology, evil, and Sweeney Todd or, "Don't I know you, mister?" /  Judith Schlesinger; title: Sondheim: the idealist /  Mari Cronin; title: "Let the pupil show the master." Stephen Sondheim and Oscar Hammerstein II /  Andrew Milner; title: Portraits of the artist. Sunday in the Park with George as "postmodern" drama /  Edward T. Bonahue; title: Assassins and the concept musical /  Scott Miller; title: Passion. Not just another simple love story /  Gary Konas; title: Revisiting Greece. The Sondheim chorus /  Barbara Means Fraser.