Stephen Sondheim, a casebook / edited by Joanne Gordon.

Other author Gordon, Joanne Lesley, 1947- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Garland Publishing, 1997.
Descriptionvi, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGarland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1916. Casebooks on modern dramatists ; v. 23
Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1916. ^A654521
Garland reference library of the humanities. Casebooks on modern dramatists ; v. 23. ^A252219
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 musical theater classic / James Fisher -- The Last of Sheila: Sondheim as master games-plalyer / 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97025563
ISBN081532054X (alk. paper)