Stephen Sondheim
Subtitle: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780815320548
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Theatre, drama; History & Criticism - General; Performing Arts; Music Of The 20th Century; Theater Music; American English; Music; Sondheim, Stephen; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Theatre; Genres & Styles - Musicals; Theater - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: In trying to define Stephen Sondheim's significance one finds oneself constantly bumping up against seemingly incompatible categories: an avant-garde artist working in the populist art form; an apparently dry and acerbic cynic capturing all the ambivalent pain of passion; a brilliant intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines in dramatic literature.