Description |
vi, 259 pages : 23 cm. |
Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ;
v. 1916. Casebooks on modern dramatists ;
v. 23
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1916.
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Casebooks on modern dramatists ; v. 23.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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 to the forum / Lois Kivesto -- Company--25 years later / John Olson -- Nixon's America and Follies. Reappraising a musicl theater classic / James Fisher -- 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 a small disaster": the art of illusion in Pacific Overtures / Leonard Fleischer. |
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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 -- Portraits of the artist. Sunday in the Park with George as "postmodern" drama / Edward T. Bonahue -- Assassins and the concept musical / Scott Miller -- Passion. Not just another simple love story / Gary Konas -- Revisiting Greece. The Sondheim chorus / Barbara Means Fraser. |
Subject |
Sondheim, Stephen -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sondheim, Stephen. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
Added Author |
Gordon, Joanne Lesley, 1947-
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ISBN |
081532054X alkaline paper |
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