Stephen Sondheim, a life / Meryle Secrest.
| Author/creator | Secrest, Meryle |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. |
| Description | ix, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | An institutionalized child -- Children will listen -- The brass goddess -- No sad songs -- Climbing high -- One good break -- Coming up roses -- Comedy tonight -- Anyone can whistle -- Being alive -- Broadway baby -- The boy in the bubble -- Applause for the clowns -- Someone in a tree -- Dies Irae -- Old friends -- Finishing the hat -- No more -- Hit after hit -- And that I learned from you -- I'm still here. |
| Abstract | In the first full-scale life of the most important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, the author draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master of modernist compositional style--but also the private man. We see Sondheim at work with composers, producers, directors, co-writers, actors, the greats of his time and ours, among them Leonard Bernstein, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, and Lee Remick (with whom it was said he was in love, and she with him), as the author vividly re-creates the energy, the passion, the despair, the excitement, the genius, that went into the making of show after Sondheim show. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-443) and index. |
| Awards note | Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award, 1999. |
| LCCN | 98014258 |
| ISBN | 0679448179 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S6872 S43 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |