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Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical (Paperback)
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Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical (Paperback)
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From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of
Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the
conventions of American musical theater and expanded the
possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what
they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such
musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with
George, and Into the Woods, has established him as the preeminent
composer/lyricist of his, if not all, time. Stephen Sondheim and
the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in
two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the
postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the
American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition
from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-style musical that had dominated
Broadway stages for twenty years to a new postmodern musical. This
new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques
of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown
of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his
most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by Oscar
Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century musical
that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of language.
Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers
close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them
critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional
systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.
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