Stephen Sondheim
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Into the Woods brings well-known fairytale characters to musical life, interwoven with the story of a baker and his wife, whose longing for a child is thwarted by a mischievous witch. Stephen Sondheim's songs, seamlessly melded to James Lapine's text, are perfect expressions of the complications of living in modern society and the difficult choices we encounter on the paths of our lives. Into the Woods premiered on Broadway in 1987, winning three...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This epic adventure musical incorporates plots and characters of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The Narrator introduces the cast of characters, each with a wish: the Baker and Baker's wife long for a child but cannot conceive, Jack desperately wishes his cow Milky White would once again provide milk so he wouldn't have to sell her, and Cinderella dreams of attending...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 445 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and here 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,...
Author
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the life and work of one of Broadway's greatest legends, Stephen Sondheim. For the composer and lyricist's 80th birthday in March 2010, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered to perform more than two dozen numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 453 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A second volume of collected lyrics by the iconic music artist features accompanying discussions of his experiences in the theater, membories about some of his important collaborations and dissections of what he beliees to be his most significant successes and failures, providing additional coverage of his creative process and no-sequitur pieces.
Author
Language
English
Description
Newly revised, with new music engravings, added songs, articles and photos. Includes: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd * By the Sea * Green Finch and Linnet Bird * Johanna * Ladies in Their Sensitivities * A Little Priest * Not While I'm Around * Pretty Women * Wait * The Worst Pies in London.
12) Four by Sondheim
Author
Language
English
Description
The complete book and lyrics with set and costume designs, production photos, essays, cast lists and credits, awards for major productions, selected discographies, and much more! Includes the shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A richly illustrated Sondheim treasury!
