The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia

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Praise from Jesse Green New York Times Chief Theater Critic Arts in the 2023 Holiday Gift Guide: From A (the director George Abbott) to Y (You Could Drive a Person Crazy) The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia by Rick Pender offers an astonishingly comprehensive look in more than 130 entries at the late masters colleagues songs shows and methods." The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theaters most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheims numerous collaborators from composers and directors to designers and orchestras; key songs such as his Academy Award winner Sooner or Later (Dick Tracy); and major works including Assassins Company Follies Sweeney Todd and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheims songs for the first time including Ethel Merman Angela Lansbury Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters. Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim a chronology of his career a listing of his many awards and discussions of his opinions on movies opera and more this wide-ranging resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.