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About 266 pages (79,933 words) in 28 products |
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| Name: |
Stephen Sondheim | | Birth Date: |
March 22, 1930 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
composer |
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 Biography of Stephen Sondheim
1,115 words, approx. 4 pages
 Active in major Broadway productions of American musical theater beginning in 1957, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (born 1930) redefined the Broadway musical form with his innovative and award winning productions. He continued to be a major... summary from source:
 Biography of Stephen Sondheim
6,860 words, approx. 23 pages
 "My experience with Sondheim musicals--and I expect that of most Sondheim enthusiasts--has inevitably been the same," New York Times theater critic Frank Rich once remarked. "One sits in a theater where people are cheering or sneering; the pitch and... 
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 Stephen Sondheim Quotes
227 words, approx. 1 pages
Stephen Sondheim (born March 22 , 1930 ) is an American stage musical and film composer and lyricist, one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sondheim, Stephen (1930—) Summary
1,920 words, approx. 6 pagesStephen Sondheim is one of the most important creative personalities in the American musical theater of the late twentieth century. Like George M. Cohan and Cole Porter before him, Sondheim is one of those rare songsters who creates both words and... summary from source:
 Stephen Sondheim Information
4,046 words, approx. 14 pages
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is an American stage musical and film composer and lyricist, one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer...
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 The Economist (US) Stephen Sondheim: A Life.
09/12/1998: 687 words, approx. 2 pages Broadway musicals Side by side STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A LIFE. By Meryle Secrest. Knopf; 461 pages; $30. RICHARD RODGERS. By William Hyland. Yale; 384 pages; $30; K19.95 FINALLY, here is a biography of the musical-theatre colossus Stephen Sondheim that is... summary from source:
American Theatre Sondheim in the heartland.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Stephen Sondheim)
01/01/2008: 339 words, approx. 1 pages FAIRFIELD, IOWA: Stephen Sondheim's city of birth, New York, has been good to him. So how come the first American theatre to bear his name isn't on the Great White Way, but instead in ... Iowa? How the new 522-seat Stephen Sondheim... summary from source:
 AP News Musical's lobby to have macabre display
8/31/2007: 376 words, approx. 1 pagesCall it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical "Assassins" opens in Philadelphia.In fact, it will be a twin bill: theatergoers will... summary from source:
The New York Observer Monday: 'LoHo' and DUMBO (and 38th Street?) Light Up
8/7/2006: 286 words, approx. 1 pagesHilarity in Park Slope Nothing says 'new Financial District condo!' like chic concierge service. The developers of South Star at 80 John Street are luring buyers with amenities from the Gansevoort Hotel (which, of course, the developers also did). Shouldn't private terraces, a "rock-climbing-wall...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Geoffrey Block
9,640 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Block assesses Sondheim's dramatic output and investigates his place within the American musical theater tradition.
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Critical Essay by Jim Lovensheimer
7,380 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Lovensheimer argues that Sondheim dramatizes the figure of the outsider or outlaw in American musicals using “popular song styles in ways that subvert the connotations they have carried for a century or more, he is taking a drastic stylistic step, one that cannot but disturb and unsettle American audiences.”
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Critical Essay by Robert L. McLaughlin
6,871 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, McLaughlin examines the theme of love in contemporary society in West Side Story, Company, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods.
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