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Contents
- Introduction: Our Sondheim
- W. ANTHONY SHEPPARD
- Part I. Early Stages
- 1. Williams College Before, During, and After Sondheim
- STEVE SWAYNE
- 2. Fragments of Fairyland: Sondheim's Abandoned Adaptation of Mary Poppins
- DOMINIC McHUGH
- 3. ...nearly everything I wrote: Sondheim and the Actors Studio
- JEFFREY MAGEE
- 4. Breakout from the Asylum of Conformity: Sondheim, Laurents, and the Dramaturgy of Anyone Can Whistle
- JAMES O'LEARY
- Part II. Staging Identities
- 5. Sondheim's Whiteness
- TODD DECKER
- 6. Politics, Representation, and Collaboration in Pacific Overtures (1976)
- ASHLEY M. PRIBYL
- 7. Sexual Identity in Company, 1969-2019
- ANDREW BUCHMAN
- 8. Students Performing Gender with Sondheim's Musicals in the Age of #MeToo
- STACY WOLF
- Part III. Versions, Genres, and Collaborations
- 9. Sweeney's Identity Crisis and the Dynamic Potential of Generic Hybridity
- KIM H. KOWALKE
- 10. A sad and listless affair: The Unsung Film Adaptation of Sondheim's A Little Night Music
- GEOFFREY BLOCK
- Part IV. Reconceived Structures and Techniques
- 11. Time and Time Again: Temporal Structures in Sondheim's Musicals
- JIM LOVENSHEIMER
- 12. Sunday in the Park with Sondheim, Lapine, Seurat, and Babbitt
- LARA E. HOUSEZ
- 13. Sondheim and the 11 O'clock Principle
- ELIZABETH A. WELLS
- 14. Finishing the Line: Wit, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Sondheim
- W. ANTHONY SHEPPARD
- Afterword: Moving on with Sondheim
- KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ