“Getting Away with Murderis more fun than a roomful of Agatha Christies.” —Daily News
Longtime musical theatre collaborators Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, who together created the landmark musicalCompany, have joined forces again to create a compellingly original thriller—Mr. Sondheim’s first nonmusical play.Getting Away with Murderunfolds on a stormy night on Manhattan’s Upper West Side at a group therapy session. The patients arrive only to find that their faithful, Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist is missing. What unfolds is a classic whodunit in the tradition ofSleuthandThe Mousetrapthat harkens back to Sondheim’s screenplay collaboration with Anthony Perkins on the cult filmThe Last of Sheila.Getting Away with Murder, originally produced at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, was produced on Broadway in 1996.
Sondheim and Furth's non-musical comedy thriller.
previously published: Company (Sondheim and Furth, TCG 1-55936-108-5, sold 2,900; 1995) Passion (Sondheim and Lapine, TCG 1-55936-088-7; sold 3,611 1994) Gypsy (Sondheim and Laurents, TCG 1994) Pacific Overtures (Sondheim and Weidman, TCG 1991) Assassins (Sondheim and Weidman, TCG 1991) Into the Woods (Sondheim and Lapine, TCG 1989) • GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER bombed on broadway, but so did ASSASSINS and we sold nearly 5,000 copies
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