Look, I Made a Hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments,...

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ISBN
9780307593412
Book Title
Look, I Made a Hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
11.2 in
Publication Year
2011
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Stephen Sondheim
Genre
Music, Performing Arts
Topic
Genres & Styles / Musicals, Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Theater / History & Criticism, Lyrics
Item Weight
59.7 Oz
Item Width
8.4 in
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
030759341X
ISBN-13
9780307593412
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038281723

Product Key Features

Book Title
Look, I Made a Hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Genres & Styles / Musicals, Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Theater / History & Criticism, Lyrics
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Performing Arts
Author
Stephen Sondheim
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
59.7 Oz
Item Length
11.2 in
Item Width
8.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-014604
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Sondheim is a national treasure, a giant in the world of musical theater who changed the structure and sound of the form in 20th-century masterpieces. Speaking of heaven, though, here's Look, I Made a Hat , the second part of Sondheim's two-volume collection of lyrics, this one spanning 1981-2011, with additional bits and pieces. Talmudically thorough and devilishly diverting with what the author refers to as 'attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes, and miscellany,' the book is divine. It's also even more magnanimously authoritative than the first book. The handsomely designed book, like the first volume, contains illuminating reproductions of pages from the author's beloved legal pads on which he works out rhyme schemes, as well as annotated scripts and pages of musical notations. And the second volume is brimming - a word Sondheim would probably dismiss as 'infelicitous' - with precise, vigorous, instructive, sharp-tongued, and often very funny comments. Look, I Made a Hat , together with Finishing the Hat , makes an enormously satisfying journal by one of the great theatrical minds of our time, a guide and touchstone for who knows how many future great theatrical minds. A" -Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly   "While the book technically covers Mr. Sondheim's output from 1981 to the present, aficionados will delight in all the bits and bobs from early in his career that Mr. Sondheim didn't make room for in the first volume . . . The extensive miscellany also includes a drawerful of lyrics Mr. Sondheim wrote as birthday gifts for friends like Harold Prince, Mary Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein. One of the choicest pleasures of the first volume was in Mr. Sondheim's sharp-minded analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of musical theater lyricists from the past. He's covered most of that territory already, so the new book features essays on 'Awards and Their Uselessness' and 'Critics and Their Uses' - savory reading." -Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Dewey Decimal
782.1/40268
Table Of Content
Note to the Reader Cast of Characters Preface Reintroduction 1. Sunday in the Park with George 2. Into the Woods 3. Assassins 4. Passion 5. Wise Guys/Bounce/Road Show: A Saga in Four Acts 6. Other Musicals 7. Movies 8. Television 9. Commissions, Occasions, Beginnings Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A: Oversights Appendix B: Original Productions Appendix C: Selected Discography Index of Songs Subject Index
Synopsis
Both a remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of a living legend, and a continuation of the acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat . Picking up where he left off in Finishing the Hat, Sondheim gives us all the lyrics, along with excluded songs and early drafts, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. Here, too, is an in-depth look at the evolution of Wise Guys, which subsequently was transformed into Bounce and eventually became Road Show. Sondheim takes us through his contributions to both television and film, some of which may surprise you, and covers plenty of never-before-seen material from unproduced projects as well. There are abundant anecdotes about his many collaborations, and readers are treated to rare personal material in this volume, as Sondheim includes songs culled from commissions, parodies and personal special occasions--such as a hilarious song for Leonard Bernstein's seventieth birthday. As he did in the previous volume, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work, both the successes and the failures. Filled with even more behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from Sondheim's original manuscripts, Look, I Made a Hat is fascinating, devourable and essential reading for any fan of the theater or this great man's work., The second volume of Sondheim's collected lyrics is b oth a remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of a legend, and a continuation of the acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat. Picking up where he left off in Finishing the Hat, Sondheim gives us all the lyrics, along with excluded songs and early drafts, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. Here, too, is an in-depth look at the evolution of Wise Guys, which subsequently was transformed into Bounce and eventually became Road Show. Sondheim takes us through his contributions to both television and film, some of which may surprise you, and covers plenty of never-before-seen material from unproduced projects as well. There are abundant anecdotes about his many collaborations, and readers are treated to rare personal material in this volume, as Sondheim includes songs culled from commissions, parodies and personal special occasions--such as a hilarious song for Leonard Bernstein's seventieth birthday. As he did in the previous volume, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work, both the successes and the failures. Filled with even more behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from Sondheim's original manuscripts, Look, I Made a Hat is fascinating, devourable and essential reading for any fan of the theater or this great man's work., The second volume of Sondheim's collected lyrics is both a remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of a legend, and a continuation of the acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat. Picking up where he left off in Finishing the Hat, Sondheim gives us all the lyrics, along with excluded songs and early drafts, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. Here, too, is an in-depth look at the evolution of Wise Guys, which subsequently was transformed into Bounce and eventually became Road Show. Sondheim takes us through his contributions to both television and film, some of which may surprise you, and covers plenty of never-before-seen material from unproduced projects as well. There are abundant anecdotes about his many collaborations, and readers are treated to rare personal material in this volume, as Sondheim includes songs culled from commissions, parodies and personal special occasions--such as a hilarious song for Leonard Bernstein's seventieth birthday. As he did in the previous volume, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work, both the successes and the failures. Filled with even more behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from Sondheim's original manuscripts, Look, I Made a Hat is fascinating, devourable and essential reading for any fan of the theater or this great man's work.
LC Classification Number
ML54.6.S69S662 2011

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