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What Makes Sondheim So Successful in Writing Roles for Women?


What Makes Sondheim So Successful in Writing Roles for Women?

Sondheim writes women of all ages, and doesn't relegate women over fifty to just wives and mothers (more specifically, even the characters who ...

Stephen Sondheim's Women of a Certain Age

The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often feature mature women as supporting and leading characters. Many writers have speculated that the composer ...

Why Sondheim's Women Are Different - The New York Times

Mr. Sondheim collaborated with others, and the sensibilities of writers like Mr. Laurents and James Lapine also helped redefine the musical's ...

a Feminist and Queer Look at Stephen Sondheim - ISU ReD

Sondheim's body of work follows this theme in how these diverse female characters feel and act in a more taboo arena: sex” (McClouskey 17). The 1960's was ...

Stephen Sondheim Loved a Brassy Dame | The New Yorker

The composer and lyricist never felt that women become obsolete in the theatre—not if you write them the songs ...

What makes Stephen Sondheim's musical theatre scores so unique ...

His work has a literary, provocative quality. Even his earthier stuff feels elevated somehow. Webber is very good at his job. But Sondheim is/ ...

Here's to the ladies who lunch: one of Sondheim's greatest ...

One of Sondheim's greatest achievements was his ability to write women that actors want to play. His works have singularly elevated the ...

The Artistic and Philosophical Legacy of Stephen Sondheim

The characters who disdain neat philosophies are Seurat and his daughter Marie. Seurat, contrary to popular opinion, is no fictionalized ...

Stephen Sondheim Discusses a Gender-Swapped 'Company'

SONDHEIM My feeling about the theater is the thing that makes it different from movies and television is that you can do it in different ways ...

Guest Post: Into the Woods | The Feminist Spectator

Like many second musical theatre collaborations, Lapine and Sondheim built on their success. For example, they brought back Bernadette Peters to ...

3 Times Sondheim Changed My Life

But like Bach, Sondheim is also a writer who rewards close study, a creator of pieces containing seemingly inexhaustible riches, layers upon ...

An Updated 'Company' for an Era of Single Women - The Atlantic

A new production of the 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical switches the gender of its main character from male to female, making an old show sharply relevant.

Sondheim! | Smithsonian

For the most part, Sondheim has been ahead of Broadway audiences, drawn to complex, neurotic characters and to that fundamental human emotion, ambivalence, ...

How Stephen Sondheim changed musical theater forever

Stephen Sondheim had a habit of firing off letters to the editor when the book writers of his shows were given short shrift in the media.

Stephen Sondheim on Writing for Musicals - Conrad Askland

Then take a story, not one that you've written, but that is not in the dramatic form, like a novel or something like that, make it into a ...

Stephen Sondheim: the man who transformed Musical Theatre

His work brims with ambivalence and ambiguity. And what's more, Company also began his unparalleled, uninterrupted run of six musicals over 11 ...

“Everybody rise!” Stephen Sondheim's greatest roles and the actors ...

More videos on YouTube ... I can't say that Stephen Sondheim is especially known for focusing on character development; that's not what makes him ...

Stephen Sondheim | Interview | American Masters - PBS

... girls are singing because you can't understand what they're saying. So what made made the number for you was the dancing and the music and then the jokes in ...

What Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim Can Teach Any Writer

He's given credit for “reinventing the American musical” with shows that tackle “unexpected themes that range far beyond the genre's traditional ...

Stephen Sondheim's Immeasurable Influence: How The Iconic ...

In an artform full of cliches and overflowing with hyperbole, to say that Sondeim changed the very nature of the American musical is neither. In fact, it's ...