Four By Sondheim

by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler (Librettist), James Lapine (Librettist)

(Applause Books). 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!

Genres: Theatre, Musicals, Plays

772 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American musical and film composer and lyricist, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described as the Titan of the American Musical.

His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.

Reviews

[Lizzie]

I picked this up my first month in New York, for a dollar or two at the Broadway Flea Market. Felt like the luckiest kid.

[Joshua Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful compilation of four of Sondheim's most groundbreaking shows.

[JANIII · Rating 5 out of 5]

The irony is that, for as good as Sondheim's works are, 3 of these 4 musicals have better scripts than songs, the exception being Sweeney Todd, of course.