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• Title:[Songs. Texts. Selections]
  Finishing the hat : collected lyrics (1954-1981) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes / Stephen Sondheim.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sondheim, Stephen.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Knopf, 2010.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML54.6.S69 S66 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sondheim, Stephen--Criticism and interpretation.
  Musicals--United States--Analysis, appreciation.
  Composers--United States--Biography.
  Musicals--Excerpts--Librettos.
  Songs--Texts.
  
• Genre/Form:Excerpts.
  Librettos.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xxvii, 445 pages : ill ; 29 cm.
  
• Summary:Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and here Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to 1981--including West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd--Sondheim treats us to never-before-published songs cut or discarded from each show. He discusses his relationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his collaborations with extraordinary talents from Leonard Bernstein to Angela Lansbury. The anecdotes--filled with pointed observations and intimate details--transport us back to a time when theater was a major pillar of American culture. Best of all, Sondheim offers unparalleled insights into songwriting.--From publisher description.
  
• Notes:Includes indexes.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780679439073
  0679439072
  
• Contents:Rhyme and its reasons
  Saturday night
  West side story
  Gypsy
  A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
  Anyone can whistle
  Do I hear a waltz?
  Company
  Follies
  A little night music
  The frogs
  Pacific overtures
  Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street
  Merrily we roll along.