Contents
- 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