SONDHEIM

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 - a man who stood at the pinnacle of the American musical theatre for more than sixty years.

Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Who of Broadway and complemented by more than two hundred color and black-and-white images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy offers a witty, multidimensional look at the musical genius behind Company, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and many others. Exploring the unique bond between Sondheim and his audiences, author Stephen M. Silverman further examines the challenging works that continue to develop devoted new followings: Anyone Can Whistle, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins, and Passion. The result is a lavish, highly engrossing documentation of the dynamic force who reshaped twentieth-century American musical history.

In Sondheim, author Stephen M. Silverman takes readers behind the scenes to look at some of the most iconic Broadway shows of the past 60 years, all of them created by a titan of the industry. Shows like West Side Story, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods changed the way people looked at the American theatre, and they are beloved by millions of people around the world. Stephen Silverman's painstaking research process has unearthed personal anecdotes and quotes from every major Broadway talent of the last half-century, including Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Hal Prince, Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti Lupone, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, and many more. Sondheim's imaginative and sophisticated layout includes rarely seen rehearsal images, fabulous full-bleed stage shots, and tons of fascinating ephemera that are certain to make it the must-have book that Sondheim's fans so richly deserve.

An illustrated celebration of the work and impact of the legendary Stephen Sondheim. It will be organized by work, with sidebars throughout, and packed with interviews with collaborators, mentors, and fans all illustrated with original transcripts, letters, photographs, and more.

Stephen M. Silverman is the author of fourteen books and a contributor to Vogue, Esquire, Smithsonian, the Times of London, the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall 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 has appeared on Today, CBS This Morning, 20/20, Dateline NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, Australia's Nine Network, and the BBC. He lives in New York City.