Stephen Sondheim Criticism
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Sondheim, Stephen (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
- Introduction
- Principal Works
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Criticism
- Contemporary Performance: The Emergence of the Fairy Tale
- On the Verge of Opera
- The Dream Shattered: America's Seventies Musicals
- A Shave too Close or not Enough?
- Spirited Revivals
- Human Comedies
- Penned in and Pent Up
- Crix Hang ‘Assassins;’ B'way Out of Range?
- Assassins
- Company
- Love in Gloom
- The Sour Smell of Success
- What We Laugh about When We Laugh about Stephen Sondheim's Assassins
- Company
- Mixed Company
- The Wizard of Loss
- Ignoble Romans
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Not Quite Utopia
- Pacific Overtures
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Broadway
- Further Reading
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Sondheim, Stephen (Joshua)
- Introduction
- 'West Side Story' a Sensational Hit!
- 'West Side Story' a Splendid and Super-Modern Musical Drama
- Music Magnificent in Overwhelming Hit
- Theatre: Good Show!
- The American Theatre: 'Gypsy'
- Theatre: Musical Is Back
- On Stage: Stephen Sondheim
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- 'Anyone Can Whistle' Original
- Musical Play Turns Allegorical
- 'Anyone Can Whistle'
- Anyone Can Whistle
- Kerr Reviews 'Do I Hear a Waltz?'
- American in a Musical Venice
- 'Company' Has Brilliant Fun with Couples in Manhattan
- Company Offers a Guide to New York's Marital Jungle
- Martin Gottfried
- 'Company': Original and Uncompromising
- 'Follies:' '… Monumental'
- Seascape with Frieze of Girls
- Folly in Folliesland
- Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies': A Pretty Girl Is Like a Malady, Etc.
- Martin Gottfried
- 'A Little Night Music', Operetta That's Exquisite but Fragile
- A Little Night Music
- Valse Triste
- Words and Music—by Sondheim
- There's Hope for Broadway in a Little Sondheim
- On Theater Lyrics: Theater Lyrics
- Popular Records
- Pacific Overtures
- 'Overtures'—A Remarkable Work of Theater Art
- Theater: 'Pacific Overtures', Musical About Japan
- Zen and Zap
- Side by Side by Sondheim
- Foggy 'Sondheim' by British Cast
- The Musical Dramas of Stephen Sondheim: Some Critical Approaches
- Howard Kissel
- Stage: Introducing 'Sweeney Todd'
- Sondheim Writes a Musical to Talk About
- Grand Guignol to Music
- The Blood Runs Cold
- Sondheim's Little Deaths
- Sweeney Todd Triumphs on Disc
- Sweeney and the 'Zeitgeist'
- Sweeney Todd
- Off Broadway
- Broadway Rolls Along, Not Always Merrily
- Strivers
- A Libretto Has to Face the Music
- 'Merrily We Roll Along': The Broadway-Cast Album of Sondheim's Latest Music-Theater Experiment
- New York
- Sondheim Says Goodbye to Broadway—For Now
- Urban Popular Song, the Broadway Musical, the Cabaret Revival & the Birth Pangs of American Opera: Stephen Sondheim
- The Words and Music of Stephen Sondheim
- 'Sunday in the Park with George': New Musical by Sondheim and Lapine
- Monday on the Stage with Steve
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Sondheim, Stephen (Drama Criticism)
- Introduction
- Principal Works
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Criticism: General Commentary
- The Musical Dramas of Stephen Sondheim: Some Critical Approaches
- Sondheim's Little Deaths
- Putting It Together: Sondheim and the Broadway Musical
- ‘No One Is Alone’: Society and Love in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim
- Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim
- The Roads He Didn't Take
- Stephen Sondheim and the Musical of the Outsider
- Company, About Face!: The Show That Revolutionized the American Musical
- Criticism: Pacific Overtures
- Criticism: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
- Who Killed the Baker's Wife?: Sondheim and Postmodernism
- Further Reading