Careful the Spell You Cast
How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical
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Product details:
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 31 October 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350281851
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 232x154x12 mm
- Weight 300 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 bw illus 650
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Long description:
Stephen Sondheim is one of the best-known and most-loved musical theatre composers, but also one of the most misunderstood, often being labelled as 'distant' or 'cynical'. Careful the Spell You Cast instead argues that Sondheim firmly belongs to the Broadway aspirational tradition, in that many of his characters are defined by their dreams: to abandon one's dream (as Ben does in Follies, Frank does in Merrily We Roll Along, and Addison does in Road Show) is to lose one's soul.
Rather than take the established view of Sondheim as a cynic, this book contends that throughout Sondheim's work, letting go of one's illusions is a process that his characters need to go through, that they must cast off illusions and false dreams, without becoming cynical and destroying their genuine dreams in the process. In turn this view aligns Sondheim's work as being aspirational and a logical continuation from the work of his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II.
Following the trajectory of Sondheim's career, Careful the Spell You Cast shows how Sondheim has dramatized this process throughout his writing life alongside different collaborators. From his work as a lyricist with the musicals Gypsy and West Side Story through to his later collaborations with Hal Prince (Company, Follies) and James Lapine (Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George), this book reframes the established view through lyrical and structural analysis in relation to the characters within each of these celebrated works of musical theatre, arguing that Sondheim is, in the popular sense of the word, a romantic within the tradition of the Broadway musical.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Oscar Hammerstein: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2. Arthur Laurents: We'll Find a Way of Beginning
3. Howard Prince: Are We a Pair?
4. Burt Shevelove: Nothing That's Grim
5. James Goldman: The Decades Fly
6. George Furth: Someday Just Begun
7. Hugh Wheeler: How Civilised Men Behave
8. John Weidman: Where's My Prize?
9. James Lapine: I Think I See a Glimmer
Conclusion
Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical
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