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Introduction; Intertexuality and authorship: toward non-linear forms; Chapter 1. Sondheim’s genius by Stephen Banfield; Chapter 2. Sondheim and postmodernism by Robert McLaughlin; Chapter 3. You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught: Oscar Hammerstein’s influence on Sondheim by Dominic Symonds; Chapter 4. Old situations, new complications: tradition and experiment in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Robert Gordon; Chapter 5. Anyone Can Whistle as experimental theatre by David Savran; The art of making art; Chapter 6. The Prince-Sondheim legacy by Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen; Chapter 7. Growing pains: revising Merrily We Roll Along by Andrew Buchman; Chapter 8. Give Us More to See: the visual world of Stephen Sondheim’s musicals by Bud Coleman; Chapter 9. Orchestrators in their own words: the sound of Sondheim in the 21st century by Nathan Matthews; Chapter 10. Nothing More than Just a Game: the American Dream goes bust in Road Show by Garret Eisler; Sondheim in performance; Chapter 11. It Takes Two: the doubling of actors and roles in Sunday in the Park with George by Olaf Jubin; Chapter 12. Something Just Broke: Assassins after the Iraq War - a production and its reception by Joanne Gordon; Chapter 13. Sondheim on the London stage by Matt Wolf; Chapter 14. And One for Mahler: an opera director’s reflections on Sondheim in the subsidized theatre by Keith Warner; Sondheim across the media; Chapter 15. Evening Primrose: Sondheim and Goldman’s television musical by Robynn J. Stilwell; Chapter 16. From screen to stage: A Little Night Music and Passion by Geoffrey Block; Chapter 17. More Sondheim: original music for movies by Roger Hickman; Chapter 18. Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd: the stage musical and Tim Burton’s film version by David Thomson; Sondheim across genres; Chapter 19. A Little Night Music: the cynical operetta by Joseph Swain; Chapter 20. into song: Sondheim tackles Greek Frogs by Marianne McDonald; Chapter 21. Sweeney Todd: From melodrama to musical tragedy by Millie Taylor; Chapter 22. Careful the Spell You Cast: Into the Woods and the uses of disenchantment by Ben Francis; Sondheim, identity and society; Chapter 23. Keeping company with Sondheim’s women by Stacy Ellen Wolf; Chapter 24. Follies: musical pastiche and cultural archaeology by Robert Lawson-Peebles; Chapter 25. Narratives of progress and tragedy in Pacific Overtures by Paul Filmer; Chapter 26. Queer Sondheim by Scott F. Stoddart; Chapter 27. Sondheim’s America; America’s Sondheim by Raymond Knapp; Bibliography; Index

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