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It's Bobbie's thirty-fifth birthday party, and all her friends are
wondering why she isn't married. Why can't she find the right man,
settle down and start a family? A breakthrough on Broadway in 1970,
Company is Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical
comedy about life, love and loneliness, featuring some of
Sondheim's most iconic songs including 'Company', 'You Could Drive
a Person Crazy', 'The Ladies Who Lunch', 'Side by Side' and 'Being
Alive'. The acclaimed West End revival in 2018 was conceived and
directed by award-winning director Marianne Elliott and produced by
Elliott & Harper Productions. Reimagining the musical by
switching the gender of several characters, including the
protagonist Bobbie, played by Rosalie Craig, the production also
starred Patti LuPone, Mel Giedroyc and Jonathan Bailey. It won the
Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical at the 2018 Critics' Circle
Theatre Awards. This edition features the complete revised book and
lyrics for the production, colour production photographs, and an
introduction by Sondheim's biographer David Benedict.
The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet
Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits. From the writing
partnership behind A Little Night Music. Victim of a gross
injustice that robbed him of his wife and child, Sweeney Todd sets
about exacting a terrible revenge on society: slitting the throats
of the customers who visit his barbershop. But things are getting
complicated - a romance has developed with Mrs Lovett, the lady who
runs the pie shop next door, and the disappearances are starting to
cause concern. With the bodies piling up, Sweeney Todd hits upon a
novel idea, and starts passing on his 'patrons' to his homely
neighbour... Meat pie, anyone? Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's
musical Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End
in 1980. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award
for Best New Musical. It has since had numerous revivals as well as
a film adaptation.
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Follies (Paperback)
Stephen Sondheim, James Goldman
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Sondheim's landmark musical about a reunion of showgirls, with a
book by James Goldman. New York, 1971. There's a party on the stage
of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be
demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies
girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs, and lie about
themselves. Including such classic songs as 'Broadway Baby', 'I'm
Still Here' and 'Losing My Mind', James Goldman and Stephen
Sondheim's legendary musical was originally staged in New York in
1971, and received its British premiere in 1987. This edition was
published alongside the major revival at the National Theatre,
London, in 2017, directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Tracie
Bennett, Janie Dee, Philip Quast and Imelda Staunton.
Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Stephen Sondheim and
James Lapine's musical celebrates the art of creation and the
creation of art. In the first half of the musical, set in 1884, the
people - and the animals - in the painting come to life in a world
where, for the artist George, art comes before love, before
everything. In the second half, a century later, Seurat's
great-grandson is wrestling with the same obsessions in present-day
New York. Sunday in the Park with George was premiered on Broadway
in May 1984, in a production directed by James Lapine. An earlier,
incomplete version had been performed Off-Broadway at Playwrights
Horizons in July 1983. The musical went on to win the 1985 Pulitzer
Prize for Drama. The first London production opened at the National
Theatre in March 1990. It won the 1991 Olivier Award for Best New
Musical.
Book by Hugh Wheeler Introduction by Christopher Bond "Mr. Sondheim
fearlessly explores psychic caverns where civilized people are not
dying to go ... A naked Sweeney Todd stands revealed as a musical
of naked rage, chewing up everyone in its path as it spits out
blood and tears." - Frank Rich, The New York Times * "A work of
such scope and such daring that it dwarfs every other Broadway
musical that even attempts to invite comparison." - Rex Reed, New
York Daily News
Evoking a fraternity of political assassins and would-be assassins
across a hundred years of our history, Sondheim and Weidman
daringly examine success, failure and the questionable drive for
power and celebrity in American society. "Dark, demented humor, as
horrifying as it is hilarious."--Michael Kuchwara, "Associated
Press"
"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and
deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure."--William A.
Henry III, "Time"
In" Hat Box," Stephen Sondheim presents his complete collected
lyrics from the acclaimed" Finishing the Hat" and" Look, I Made a
Hat." This box set includes lyrics from Sondheim's most popular
shows like" West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with
George, "and" Into the Woods, " richly annotated with anecdotes,
pointed observations, and invaluable advice from one of the
greatest songwriters of our time. This handsomely designed package
is essential reading for any fan of the theater or this living
legend's work.
Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected
lyrics, giving us another remarkable glimpse into
his life's work, and into his life.
As he did in the acclaimed and best-selling "Finishing the Hat"
(one of "The New York Times "10 Best Books of 2010), Sondheim
richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theater history,
discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming
dissections of his work--both the successes and the failures.
Picking up where he left off in "Finishing the Hat, "he gives us
all the lyrics, along with cutouts and early drafts, to the
Pulitzer Prize-winning "Sunday in the Park with George, "as well as
"Into the Woods, Assassins, " and "Passion." Here too is an
in-depth look at "Wise Guys, "subsequently transformed into
"Bounce, "and eventually into "Road Show." And we are treated to
chapters on his work for television and film and his "orphan
songs," culled from parodies and special occasions over the years.
Filled with behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from
original manuscripts, and with the same elegant design as the
earlier book, "Look, I Made a Hat" will be devoured by Sondheim's
passionate fans today and for years to come.
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven
Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His career
has spanned more than half a century, his lyrics have become
synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and in
"Finishing the Hat"--titled after perhaps his most autobiographical
song, from "Sunday in the Park with George"--Sondheim has not only
collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a
rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable
productions.
Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to
1981--including "West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little Night
Music" and "Sweeney Todd"--Sondheim treats us to
never-before-published songs from each show, songs that were cut or
discarded before seeing the light of day. He discusses his
relationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his
collaborations with extraordinary talents such as Leonard
Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, Angela
Lansbury, Harold Prince and a panoply of others. The
anecdotes--filled with history, pointed observations and intimate
details--transport us back to a time when theater was a major
pillar of American culture. Best of all, Sondheim appraises his
work and dissects his lyrics, as well as those of others, offering
unparalleled insights into songwriting that will be studied by fans
and aspiring songwriters for years to come.
Accompanying Sondheim's sparkling writing are behind-the-scenes
photographs from each production, along with handwritten music and
lyrics from the songwriter's personal collection.
Penetrating and surprising, poignant, funny and sometimes
provocative, "Finishing the Hat" is not only an informative look at
the art and craft of lyric writing, it is a history of the theater
that belongs on the same literary shelf as Moss Hart's "Act One"
and Arthur Miller's "Timebends." It is also a book that will leave
you humming the final bars of "Merrily We Roll Along, " while
eagerly anticipating the next volume, which begins with the opening
lines of "Sunday in the Park with George."
The musical tale of a domineering stage mother's inadvertent
creation of a burlesque stripper, now available in paperback for
the first time.
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Sondheim - Lyrics (Hardcover)
Peter Gethers, Russell Perreault; Stephen Sondheim
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Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won
eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award
and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have
entertained us for more than half a century and his Broadway shows
revolutionized musical theatre. Working together with Sondheim,
editor Peter Gethers has selected for this volume lyrics from
across Sondheim's career, drawn from shows including West Side
Story, Gypsy, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd,
Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. The result is a
delightful pocket-sized treasury of the best of Sondheim
"Throwing caution to the winds, I assert that A Little Night Music
comes as close as possible to being the perfect romantic comedy
musical." -Brendan Gill, The New Yorker "Heady, civilized,
sophisticated and enchanting. Good God! An adult musical." -Clive
Barnes, The New York Times
(Vocal Collection). The most comprehensive, multi-volume collection
of Sondheim songs ever published. Each volume has a different
contents list. The volumes include songs in original keys, and
appropriate transpositions. Each volume includes an extensive
introductory section, with plot synopses and comments from Sondheim
about songs and shows.
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Into the Woods (Book)
Stephen Sondheim
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(Vocal Score). Into the Woods blends various familiar fairy tales
with an original story of a childless baker and his wife, who
catalyze the action of the story by attempting to reverse a curse
on their family in order to have a child. Newly edited. Complete
vocal score including: Agony * Any Moment * Children Will Listen *
Giants in the Sky * I Know Things Now * Into the Woods * It Takes
Two * No More * No One Is Alone * On the Steps of the Palace * Stay
with Me.
Collection of four films starring Johnny Depp. In 'The Astronaut's
Wife' (1999), on a seemingly routine mission to repair a space
satellite, astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) loses contact with
Mission Control for a period of time. Once Spencer has returned to
Earth his wife Jillian (Charlize Theron) falls pregnant with twin
boys, but her joy is tempered by the suspicion that something
terrible happened to her husband in space - something which could
threaten the entire human race. In 'Dark Shadows' (2012), when
playboy Barnabas Collins (Depp) breaks the heart of the beautiful
Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green), an old family curse is released as
Angelique, a witch, turns Barnabas into a vampire before burying
him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed and
emerges into the very changed world of 1972. Returning to his
former home at Collinwood Manor, he finds his estate in ruins and
the dysfunctional dregs of his family in tatters. Matriarch
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has enlisted the
services of live-in psychiatrist Dr Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham
Carter) to help with her numerous family problems - but between
Elizabeth's loser brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller), her
rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Moretz), and
Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver
McGrath), Dr Hoffman has certainly got her work cut out. 'Sweeney
Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' (2007), Tim Burton's film
version of the Stephen Sondheim musical, is based on a 'penny
dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th
Century. The story centres around Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber
who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he
didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham
Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and
his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away -
the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and
filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above
Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker
kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends
their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling
for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in
London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but
Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the
barber's chair... In 'Don Juan DeMarco' (1994) Marlon Brando plays
a psychiatrist whose last case, that of Don Juan (Depp), is his
most difficult. Don Juan is the world's greatest lover, having
seduced over 1000 women, and his amorous tales totally captivate
the analyst, re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost
forever.
The Mystery Fancier, Volume 5 Number 1, January/February 1981,
contains: "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part VI," by Barry
Van Tilburg, "Hunter and Hunted," by Jane S. Bakerman, "The Body in
the Library," by Martin Morse Wooster, and "Blame Stephen
Sondheim," by E. F. Bleiler.
On the eve of a once-glorious theatre's destruction, all of life's
might-have-beens take center stage as two jaded couples glamorize
the old days in what proves to be a shattering experience. Declared
"one of the greatest musicals ever written" by the "New York
Times," the legendary classic by musical visionaries Sondheim and
Goldman will return to Broadway in fall 2011.
(Applause Libretto Library). This 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning
musical was inspired by the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. A complex work
revolving around a fictionalized Seurat immersed in single-minded
concentration while painting the masterpiece, the production has
evolved into a meditation on art, emotional connection, and
community. This publication contains the entire script of the
musical. " Sunday is itself a modernist creation, perhaps the first
truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has produced
... a watershed event that demands nothing less than a
retrospective, even revisionist, look at the development of the
serious Broadway musical." Frank Rich, The New York Times Magazine
(P/V/G Composer Collection). The first definitive collection of
Sondheim's songs, with selections from Anyone Can Whistle,
Assassins, Company, Dick Tracy, Evening Primrose, Follies, The
Frogs, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the
Woods, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific
Overtures, Passion, Road Show, Saturday Night, Sunday in the Park
with George, and Sweeney Todd. Includes detailed notes about the
shows and films.
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