Putting It Together
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374200091
First entered: 7th, Aug 2021
Number of weeks: 1
Book Summary
Authors
Name: James Lapine
Name: Stephen Sondheim
Hometown: New York, New York
Born: Mar, 1930
About the author:
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American musical and film composer and lyricist, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described by Frank Rich in the The New York Times as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.