If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress
The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt
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Product details:
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 6 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350430655
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 248x172x20 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 100 colour illus 677
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Iconic Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story from a tumultuous childhood in Depression-era Chicago to Bohemian New York in the 1950s, becoming one of the 20th century's most celebrated designers.
Told with Zipprodt's acerbic humor and delicious wit, If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress charts her journey to 1950s Greenwich Village, America's literary and artistic Bohemia. Tracking her career as it plunges into the developing Off-Broadway movement, and charting her personal and professional failures and successes collaborating with the biggest artists of the day - Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, and Bob Fosse - making her one of the most recognizable, and award-winning, designers of 20th-century theatre.
Published in full color, this illustrated memoir includes pictures from Zipprodt's own archive including sketches, drawings, and photographs of her work from some of the most significant shows of the 20th century, including Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago, and Pippin, and her work with such American theatre giants as Jo Mielziner, Irene Sharaff, José Quintero, Boris Aronson, Tony Walton, and Joel Grey, who provides a personal foreword to the memoir. Zipprodt's posthumous collaborator, theatre design historian Arnold Wengrow provides a vivid epilogue about her final battle with cancer. Drawing from her archive at the New York Public Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, he amplifies her recollections with letters, oral histories, and interviews she gave over the years to offer a portrait of an artist consistently working against the grain.
If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress will delight readers interested in Broadway, ballet, opera, and the history of costume design. Her lively anecdotes about New York theatre and working in Hollywood provide a rich insight into the life and work of a celebrated female creative giant of American theatre.
Table of Contents:
Preface by Arnold Wengrow
Foreword
Chapter 1: Starting Out In Chicago
Chapter 2: College Days, A Puppet Show, A Fateful Meeting, Leaving Home for Good
Chapter 3: Getting Started In New York
Chapter 4: Making My Way on Broadway
Chapter 5: Finding Myself Off Broadway
Chapter 6: Hal and Jerry
Chapter 7: Fiddler on the Roof
Chapter 8: Cabaret
Chapter 9: Mike Nichols, The Graduate, or Why I Hate Hollywood
Chapter 10: Fosse
Chapter 11: Dealing with Addictions, Buying God's Pocket
Chapter 12: In Sum
Epilogue
Appendix Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Designs of Patricia Zipprodt
Acknowledgments
Index
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