SOURCE: Lovensheimer, Jim. “Stephen Sondheim and the Musical of the Outsider.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, pp. 181-96. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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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