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America's foremost musical-theater composer also proves to be a fascinatingly complex and conflicted human being in this meticulous biography by the always-capable Meryle Secrest (Being Bernard Berenson, etc.). Stephen Sondheim himself was interviewed for the book, as were many of his closest friends, and the author makes perceptive use of this material. Born in 1930, Sondheim was a successful Broadway lyricist (West Side Story and Gypsy) before he was 30. But the scars from a miserable childhood remained: he was inclined to be distant, hypercritical of those less intelligent than he, and terrified of serious emotional commitment. Critics sometimes found those qualities in the series of groundbreaking musicals he created with director Hal Prince--Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd, to name four--but they agreed that he brought new intellectual ambition and artistic adventurousness to the musical theater.



1. Stephen Sondheim : A Life
by Meryle Secrest

2. My Name Escapes Me : The Diary of a Retiring Actor
by Alec Guinness

3. Shakespeare : A Life
by Park Honan

4. Houdini!!! : The Career of Ehrich Weiss
by Kenneth Silverman

5. Balancing Act : The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury
by Martin Gottfried

6. Bombshells : Glamour Girls of a Lifetime
by Steve Sullivan

7. With Ossie and Ruby : In This Life Together
by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

8. I Think I'm Outta Here : A Memoir of All My Families
by Carroll O'Connor

9. Beginning
by Kenneth Branagh

10. Oscar Wilde's Last Stand : Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
by Philip Hoare

11. Memoirs of an Amnesiac
by Oscar, Levant

12. But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame! : The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt
by Richard Tyler Jordan

13. Pictures in My Head
by Gabriel Byrne

14. A Traitor's Kiss : The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
by Fintan Otoole, Fintan O'Toole

15. Threads of Time (A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book)
by Peter Brook

16. Pictures in My Head
by Gabriel Byrne

17. Leaving a Doll's House : A Memoir
by Claire Bloom

18. But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame! : The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt
by Richard Tyler Jordan

19. Damned to Fame : The Life of Samuel Beckett
by James Knowlson

20. Kenneth Tynan : Letters
by Kenneth Tynan, ka Tynan

21. Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anto Chekhov and Olga Knipper
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, et al

22. Leaving a Doll's House : A Memoir
by Claire Bloom, Bill Phillips (Editor)

23. The Kindness of Strangers : The Life of Tennessee Williams
by Donald Spoto

24. When Do I Start? : A Memoir
by Karl Malden, Carla Malden (Contributor)

25. Rewrites : A Memoir
by Neil Simon

26. Profiles
by Kenneth Tynan, Simon Callow (Introduction)

27. The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (Kodansha Globe)
by Ruth Brandon, Philip Turner (Editor)

28. Shakespeare
by Anthony Burgess

29. Nazimova : A Biography
by Gavin Lambert

30. Speak Low (When You Speak Love) : The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
by Lys Symonette(Editor), et al

31. Year of the King : An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook
by Antony Sher

32. I Think I'm Outta Here : A Memoir of All My Families
by Carroll O'Connor(Narrator)

33. Tony Kushner in Conversation (Triangulations)
by Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (Editor)

34. An Actor and His Time
by John Gielgud, et al

35. Musical Stages : An Autobiography
by Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers (Introduction)

36. Memoirs of a Sword Swallower
by Daniel P. Mannix

37. Noel Coward : A Biography
by Philip Hoare

38. The Real Life of Laurence Olivier
by Roger Lewis

39. Being an Actor
by Simon Callow

40. Accidentally on Purpose : Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity
by John Strasberg

41. Shakespeare : The Evidence : Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work
by Ian Wilson, Cal Morgan (Editor)

42. Meredith Monk (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series)
by Deborah Jowitt(Editor)

43. James Earl Jones : Voices and Silences
by James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven

44. Angela Lansbury : A Life on Stage and Screen
by Rob Edelman, Audrey Kupferberg (Contributor)

45. Tarkovsky : Cinema As Poetry
by Maya Turovshaya, et al

46. Sam Shepard
by Don Shewey

47. The Orton Diaries : Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others
by Joe Orton(Editor), John Lahr (Editor)

48. The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber
by Keith Richmond

49. Ralph Richardson : An Actor's Life
by Garry O'Connor

50. The Presence of the Actor
by Joseph Chaikin

51. Brecht and Company : Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
by John Fuegi

52. Stanislavsky Directs
by Nikolai Gurchakov, et al

53. The Mystic in the Theatre : Eleonora Duse
by Eva Le Gallienne, Gallienne Eva Le

54. The Diary of Lillie Langtry : And Other Remembrances
by Donna Lee Harper(Illustrator), et al

55. And the Show Goes on : Broadway and Hollywood Adventures
by Sheldon Leonard, Andy Griffith

56. Bertolt Brecht's Berlin : A Scrapbook of the Twenties
by Wolf Von Eckardt, et al

57. Rachel Rosenthal (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series)
by Moria Roth(Editor), Moira Roth (Editor)

58. Eva Le Gallienne : A Biography
by Helen Sheehy

59. Mrs. Jordan's Profession : The Actress and the Prince
by Claire Tomalin

60. The Great Stage Directors : 100 Distinguished Careers of the Theater
by Samuel L. Leiter, Simon Callow (Designer)

61. Speak Low (When You Speak Love) : The Letters of Kurt Weil and Lotte Lenya
by Kurt Weill, et al

62. Tom : The Unknown Tennessee Williams
by Lyle Leverich

63. Lessons in Laughter : The Autobiography of a Deaf Actor
by Bernard Bragg, Eugene Bergman

64. Daughter of Shanghai
by Tsai Chin, Tsai Chin

65. Cousins : A Memoir
by Athol Fugard

66. The Smart Set : George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
by Thomas Quinn Curtiss

67. My Life With Noel Coward
by Graham Payn, Barry Day (Contributor)

68. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
by Lorraine Hansberry

69. Shakespeare : A Life in Drama
by Stanley Wells

70. Robert Shaw : More Than a Life
by Karen Carmean(Contributor), Georg Gaston

71. Funny, You Don't Look Like One : Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway
by Drew Hayden Taylor

72. The Stars Who Created Kabuki : Their Lives, Loves and Legacy
by Laurence R. Kominz, Michael Brase (Editor)

73. Writing Wrongs : The Work of Wallace Shawn (American Subjects)
by W. D. King, et al

74. Bertolt Brecht : His Life, His Art and His Times
by Frederic Ewen

75. To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
by Robert Nemiroff(Contributor), et al



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