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American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics (paperback)
An overview of American political assassination, used by bookwriter John
Weidman as a historical source for Assassins. |
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Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg (hardcover)
(paperback)
A 1986 biography of the famous actress who originated lead roles in Anyone Can Whistle and Sweeney Todd. |
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Art Isn't Easy: The Theatre of Stephen Sondheim (paperback) (hardcover)
Joanne Gordon's academic analysis of Sondheim's shows from Forum through Assassins. |
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From Assassins to West Side Story: The Director's Guide to Musical Theatre (paperback)
Scott Miller's views on various musicals. |
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Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury by Martin Gottfried (hardcover)
(paperback)
The theatre critic who brought us the "coffee table" book Sondheim now gives us an inside look at the famous actress who originated roles in
Anyone Can Whistle and Sweeney Todd. |
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Boy Loses Girl: Broadway's Librettists
Thomas S. Hischak
(hardcover)
A lively and informative look at the careers,
works, and characteristics of the major librettists of the American theatre. An entire chapter is devoted to the writers of the "books" for Sondheim shows. |
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Coming Up Roses by Ethan Mordden (hardcover) (paperback)
A history of the Broadway musical in the 1950's, covering Sondheim's early
career. |
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Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim (hardcover)
Geoffrey and Fred L. Block's chronology of the Broadway musical. |
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Getting To Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II
(paperback)
Sondheim wrote the introduction to this biography of his childhood mentor.
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Gypsy: A Memoir (paperback)
Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir, upon which Gypsy was based. |
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Gypsy: The Making of the Great Broadway Musical Mega-Hits (paperback)
Keith Garebian's series of books about the creation of major Broadway musicals. |
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Hey, Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (hardcover)
The coffee table book companion to the video and CD recording of the 50th birthday tribute concert for the British producer who produced a number of Sondheim shows. |
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Harold Prince: A Director's Journey (paperback)
A new edition of Carol Ilson's major professional biography of director/producer Harold
Prince. |
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Lyrics (hardcover)
Sondheim wrote the introduction to this collection of lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
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Original Story by Arthur Laurents (hardcover) (paperback)
The bookwriter of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle
, and Do I Hear A Waltz? writes about his 60 year career as a playwright, screenwriter, and director with incredible candor. |
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Passion (a.k.a. Fosca) by I.U. Tarchetti, translated by Lawrence Venuti (paperback)
The novel that inspired the film that inspired the musical. |
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Hal Prince and the American Musical Theater (hardcover) (paperback)
Foster Hirsch's 1989 career biography of the director/producer, told through a series of interviews. |
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Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays (hardcover)
(paperback)
Edited by Sandor Goodhart, this is Volume 10 in a series of academic literary criticism. |
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Sondheim by Martin Gottfried (New Edition May 2000!) (hardcover)
This "coffee table" book of the history of Sondheim's shows, originally published in 1993, has been updated to include Passion, Saturday Night, Putting It Together, and Wise Guys.
112 photos, 60 in color. |
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Sondheim & Co. (2nd ed., 1994)
Longtime Sondheim associate Craig Zadan's famous book of history, photos, and interviews. |
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Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions
(hardcover)
Music librarian Mark Eden Horowitz's analysis of Sondheim's music through
extensive interviews conducted with the composer-lyricist in 1997. |
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Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook (Casebook on Modern Dramatists Vol. 23) (hardcover)
(paperback)
A collection of academic essays on Sondheim, edited by Joanne Gordon. |
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Stephen Sondheim: A Life (hardcover) (paperback)
Meryle Secrest's landmark 1998 authorized biography, now also available in
paperback. |
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Sondheim's Broadway Musicals (paperback)
Prof. Stephen Banfield's 1993 musicological analysis. |
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Stephen Sondheim's Crossword Puzzles (paperback)
A collection of crossword puzzles Sondheim created for New York Magazine in the 1970's.
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They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim - The Stories Behind the Words and Music of Two Generations (hardcover)
Historian Max Wilk's chronology of interviews. |
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The Making of West Side Story (paperback)
Keith Garebian's history. |
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Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim
(hardcover)
Thomas S. Hischak's chronological analysis of Broadway lyricists. |
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