Sondheim: Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Sondheim: Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

A beautiful Pocket Poet hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of Stephen Sondheim.

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 and his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture. Editor Peter Gethers, working with Sondheim, has selected for this volume lyrics from across his 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.

Stephen Sondheim is generally recognized as one of the most influential and innovative artists working in contemporary musical theatre. He has written lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy and Do I Hear a Waltz, and the complete scores (music and lyrics) for works such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, Company, A Little Night Music, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Passion, Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd/ He has won six Tony Awards for Best Score for a Musical, a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, an Academy Award for Best Song, eight Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and many other honors.

James Lapine has written and directed the plays Twelve Dreams, Table Settings, Luck, Pluck and Virtue, Fran's Bed, The Moment When, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, and Act One, an adaptation of Moss Hart's autobiography. He has written the book for and directed the musicals Into the Woods, Passion and Sunday in the Park with George (all with scores by Stephen Sondheim) and Falsettos, A New Brain, Muscles and Little Miss Sunshine (all with scores by William Finn). He has directed numerous plays on Broadway and at leading theatres around the country, and has received three Tony Awards, five Drama Desk awards, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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ISBN 13	9781101908167
ISBN 10	1101908165
Title	Sondheim: Lyrics
Author	Stephen Sondheim
Series	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-03-03
Number of pages	224
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