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A beautiful hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of Americas greatest composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. AN EVERYMANS LIBRARY POCKET POET.
Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of twenty-seven. Along his remarkable and wide-ranging career spanning more than six decades, he accumulated accolades that include eight Tony Awards, an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Kennedy Center Honors, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sondheim redefined musical theater with his groundbreaking work, combining words and music in ways that are by turns challenging, moving, witty, profound, and never less than exhilarating.
This volume includes a selection of lyrics from across his career, drawn from shows including West Side Story, Gypsy, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and more, including:
Somewhere from West Side Story
Mommas Talkin Soft from Gypsy
A Hero is Coming from Anyone Can Whistle
Someone Like You from Do I Hear A Waltz
Being Alive from Company
The Road You Didnt Take from Follies
Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music
Not While Im Around from Sweeney Todd
Sunday from Sunday in the Park with George
Children Will Listen from Into the Woods
The result is a delightful pocket-sized treasury of the very best of Sondheim.
Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Author: Stephen Sondheim
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published: 03/03/2020
Series: Everymans Library Pocket Poets
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.30h x 4.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781101908167
Language: English
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