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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.
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.
From talented director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham
Carter bring to life this dramatic tale of vengeance and passion.
Based on the original Tony Award-winning Broadway show, the film
version opened in theatres to critical acclaim and a coveted Golden
Globe Award for Best Motion Picture.
Alfred brings Sweeney Todd hits to musicians everywhere. Enjoy 16
classic favorites, with music and lyrics by renowned composer
Stephen Sondheim. The piano/vocal arrangements in this songbook
were produced in direct consultation with Mr. Sondheim, who
personally certified their accuracy.
Titles: No Place Like London * The Worst Pies in London * Poor
Thing * My Friends * Green Finch and Linnet Bird * Johanna *
Pirellias Miracle Elixir * The Contest * Wait * Pretty Women *
Epiphany * A Little Priest * Johanna * God, Thatas Good! * By the
Sea * Not While Iam Around.
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Follies (Paperback)
Stephen Sondheim, James Goldman
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R303
R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
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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.
"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and
deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure."--William A.
Henry III, "Time"
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.
(Easy Piano Composer Collection). 15 Sondheim standouts simplified
for beginning players: Anyone Can Whistle * Broadway Baby *
Children Will Listen * Comedy Tonight * Good Thing Going * Johanna
* Losing My Mind * Loving You * Not a Day Goes By * Not While I'm
Around * Old Friends * Pretty Women * Send in the Clowns * Side by
Side by Side * Sunday. Includes lyrics and a composer bio.
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"
Longtime musical theatre collaborators Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, who together created the landmark musical Company, have joined forces again to create a compellingly original thriller - Mr. Sondheim's first nonmusical play. Getting Away with Murder unfolds on a stormy night on Manhattan's Upper West Side at a group therapy session. The patients arrive only to find that their faithful, Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist is missing. What unfolds is a classic whodunit in the tradition of Sleuth and The Mousetrap that harkens back to Sondheim's screenplay collaboration with Anthony Perkins on the cult film The Last of Sheila.
(Instrumental). These solo instrumental arrangements are faithful
to Bernstein's score, and have been idiomatically adapted to the
instruments for these editions. Intermediate to Advanced Level.
CONTENTS: Jet Song * Something's Coming * Gee, Officer Krupke *
Maria * Tonight (Balcony Scene) * America * Cool * One Hand, One
Heart * I Feel Pretty * Somewhere. The enhanced CD includes
recordings of piano accompaniments for each piece along with tempo
adjustment software for CD-ROM computer use.
The musical tale of a domineering stage mother's inadvertent
creation of a burlesque stripper, now available in paperback for
the first time.
(Vocal Selections). Newly edited, with new music engravings, added
songs, articles and photos. Includes: Flashback * Happiness * I
Read * I Wish I Could Forget You * Is This What You Call Love? *
Love like Ours * Loving You * No One Has Ever Loved Me * They Hear
Drums.
(Vocal Selections). Vocal selections of 8 songs from Sondheim's
obscure yet beloved 1964 musical, including: Anyone Can Whistle *
Come Play Wiz Me * Everybody Says Don't * I've Got You to Lean On *
Parade in Town * See What It Gets You * There Won't Be Trumpets *
With So Little to Be Sure Of.
"Priceless and peerless...a thrilling work of
theatricality."--Wayman Wong, "San Francisco Examiner"
(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.
(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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Into the Woods (Book)
Stephen Sondheim
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R2,225
R1,883
Discovery Miles 18 830
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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.
A breakthrough Broadway musical in 1970, Company remains fresh,
acerbic and original today. The musical's themes - marriage and
commitment, friendship and loneliness - and its innovations in form
mark it as a landmark of modern American musical theatre. Company's
25th anniversary was commemorated by two major revivals: in New
York, at the Roundabout Theatre Company and in London at the Donmar
Warehouse. This edition incorporates all revisions and additions
made for these productions.
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.
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.
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Passion (Paperback, New)
Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
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R444
R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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A handsome army officer, entangled with a married woman, is
despatched to a distant military outpost. There he has to beat off
the attentions of Fosca, the sickly - and distinctly unattractive -
cousin of his commanding officer, only to realise that he's falling
in love with her.
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
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