Art Isn't Easy: The Achievement of Stephen Sondheim

by Joanne Gordon

Book Overview

The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life.

Confident that the musical is America's greatest original contribution to theatre, Joanne Gordon explicates the works of Sondheim to repudiate the common perception of the genre as mere escapist entertainment.

Gordon notes that Sondheim tackles real themes, that he has no fear of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931407X
• ISBN13: 9780809314072
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"