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Look, I made a hat collected lyrics (1981-2011) with attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes and miscellany

Picking up where he left off in "Finishing the Hat", Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theatre history, discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming dissections of his work -- both the successes and the failures.

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Main Author: Sondheim, Stephen
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Sondheim, Stephen > Criticism and interpretation.
Musicals > United States > Analysis, appreciation.
Composers > United States > Biography.
Musicals > Excerpts > Librettos.
Songs > Texts.
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Summary:Picking up where he left off in "Finishing the Hat", Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theatre history, discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming dissections of his work -- both the successes and the failures.
Physical Description:xxiii, 453 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:Includes discography (p. 439-442) and indexes.
ISBN:9780307593412 (hbk.)
030759341X (hbk.)
Author Notes:Stephen Sondheim was born in New York and studied music at Williams College, where he wrote the lyrics and music for two college shows. Sondheim also studied at Princeton University with Milton Babbit. He received recognition for writing lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957) and success as a lyricist-composer with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962). However, his next musical, Anyone Can Whistle (1964), was unsuccessful. The production of Company (1970) again established Sondheim as a major composer and lyricist on Broadway. Sondheim's other productions include Follies (1971); A Little Night Music (1973), wherein its leading song, "Send in the Clowns," was awarded a Grammy in 1976; and Sunday in the Park with George (1983), a musical inspired by George Seurat's famous painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." He has won him three Tony Awards, a Grammy Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Musical Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

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