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Contents General Editor's Note, Kimball King; 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 a Master Games-Player, Douglas Braverman; On Performing Sondheim (A Little Night Music Revisited), David Craig; "More Beautiful than True" or "Never Mind the 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; Portrait of the Artist: Sunday in the Park with George and "Revolutionary" Musical Drama, Edward T. Bonahue, Jr.; Assassins and the Concept Musical, Scott Miller; Passion: Not Just Another Simple Love Story, Gary Konas; Revisiting Greece: the Sondheim Chorus, Barbara Means Fraser; Contributors; Index

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1114557 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 259 pages