Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy [Hardcover]

Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images,Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend. "Aside from Sondheim's own exceptional books...this may be the best coffee-table volume devoted to his work."(Shelf Awareness)

Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Who of Broadway Babies and complemented by more than two hundred color and black-and-white images,Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacyoffers a witty, multidimensional look at the musical genius behindCompany, Follies, A Little Night Music,Into the Woods,Sunday in the Park with George,Sweeney Todd, and the landmarkWest Side StoryandGypsy.

Exploring the unique bond between Sondheim and his audiences, author Stephen M. Silverman further examines the challenging Sondheim works that continue to develop devoted new followings:Anyone Can Whistle, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins,andPassion.

The result is a lavish, highly engrossing documentation of the dynamic force who reshaped twentieth-century American musical history.

Stephen M. Silverman was the author of fourteen books and a contributor toVogue, Esquire, Smithsonian,theTimesof London, theNew York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and theWall Street Journal, which described him as “a veteran journalist and historian of popular culture who writes with verve and mischief.” A former news editor at Time Inc., he taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and appeared onToday,CBS This Morning,20/20,Dateline NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, Australia’s Nine Network, and the BBC. 
 "Somewhere between a biography and a coffee-table book, Stephen M. Silverman's l£Œ