Join Rick Pender in a lively conversation hosted by Broadway Nation's David Armstrong. Hear about the challenges and joys of producing a comprehensive work about the lyricist and composer who has brought us West Side Story, Gypsy, Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, among other treasured musicals.
Rick Pender's Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater’s most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim’s numerous collaborators—from book writers, composers and directors to designers and orchestras—key songs—such as his Academy Award winner “Sooner or Later” (Dick Tracy)—and major works—including Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also contains information about Sondheim’s mentoring by Oscar Hammerstein II and his early collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, and profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheim’s songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters.
Featuring a detailed biographical entry about Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this comprehensive resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.
David Armstrong host and producer of DAVID ARMSTRONG'S BROADWAY NATION will host the conversation.
Armstrong is a stage director, writer, producer, lecturer, educator and choreographer. He is the Artistic Director Emeritus of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. He currently serves on the faculty of the University of Washington School Of Drama where he teaches a course entitled: The Broadway Musical: How Immigrants, Jews, Queers and African-Americans Invented America's Signature Art Form. …...more
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