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Contents General Editor's Note, Kimball King; Introduction, Joanne Gordon; Chronology; Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim Laura Hanson; Comedy Tonight!: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Lois Kivesto; Company 25 Years Later John Olson; Nixon's America and Follies: Reappraising a Musical Theater Classic,James Fisher; The Last of Sheila: Sondheim as a Master Games-Player, Douglas Braverman; On Performing Sondheim (A Little Night Music Revisited), David Craig; "More Beautiful than True" or "Never Mind the Small Disaster": The Art of Illusion in Pacific Overtures, Leonard Fleischer; Psychology, Evil and Sweeney Todd or, "Don't I Know You,Mister?"Judith Schlesinger; Sondheim: The Idealist, Mari Cronin; "Let the Pupil Show the Master" Stephen Sondheim and Oscar Hammerstein II, Andrew Milner; Portrait of the Artist: Sunday in the Park with George and "Revolutionary" Musical Drama, Edward T. Bonahue, Jr.; Assassins and the Concept Musical, Scott Miller; Passion: Not Just Another Simple Love Story, Gary Konas; Revisiting Greece: the Sondheim Chorus, Barbara Means Fraser; Contributors; Index
Contents General Editor's Note, Kimball King; Introduction, Joanne Gordon; Chronology; Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim Laura Hanson; Comedy Tonight!: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Lois Kivesto; Company 25 Years Later John Olson; Nixon's America and Follies: Reappraising a Musical Theater Classic,James Fisher; The Last of Sheila: Sondheim as a Master Games-Player, Douglas Braverman; On Performing Sondheim (A Little Night Music Revisited), David Craig; "More Beautiful than True" or "Never Mind the Small Disaster": The Art of Illusion in Pacific Overtures, Leonard Fleischer; Psychology, Evil and Sweeney Todd or, "Don't I Know You,Mister?"Judith Schlesinger; Sondheim: The Idealist, Mari Cronin; "Let the Pupil Show the Master" Stephen Sondheim and Oscar Hammerstein II, Andrew Milner; Portrait of the Artist: Sunday in the Park with George and "Revolutionary" Musical Drama, Edward T. Bonahue, Jr.; Assassins and the Concept Musical, Scott Miller; Passion: Not Just Another Simple Love Story, Gary Konas; Revisiting Greece: the Sondheim Chorus, Barbara Means Fraser; Contributors; Index
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The images of female characters in musical theatre have traditionally, as the Stephen Sondheim lyric suggests, been limited by certain categorizations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Little Night Music, American Dream, Anyone Can Whistle, George Furth, James Lapine, Franklin Shepard, Act One, Art Isn't Easy, Barbara Means Fraser, John Weidman, Oscar Hammerstein, Chorus Line, Harold Prince, Hugh Wheeler, Madame Armfeldt, Funny Thing Happened, Hal Prince, Random House, West Side Story, Act Two, David Craig New!
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The images of female characters in musical theatre have traditionally, as the Stephen Sondheim lyric suggests, been limited by certain categorizations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Little Night Music, American Dream, Anyone Can Whistle, George Furth, James Lapine, Franklin Shepard, Act One, Art Isn't Easy, Barbara Means Fraser, John Weidman, Oscar Hammerstein, Chorus Line, Harold Prince, Hugh Wheeler, Madame Armfeldt, Funny Thing Happened, Hal Prince, Random House, West Side Story, Act Two, David Craig New!
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