Broadway: The American Musical

Stephen Sondheim in the 1980s

Sunday in the Park With George

Sondheim, Stephen. Sunday in the Park with George: a musical.
Libretto by James Lapine.
1st ed.
New York : Dodd, Mead, c1986.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Sondheim, Stephen. Sunday in the Park with George: a musical: vocal selections.
Prepared by Paul McKibbins.
Concept musical based on Georges Seurat's painting La Grande Jatte.
New York : Revelation Music Publishing Corp. & Rilting Music, c1984.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Seurat and his descendants, and the world of art. The musical was developed
off-Broadway, at Playwrights Horizons, and transferred to Broadway about a
year later.It won Sondheim a Pulitzer Prize for drama, and it was the beginning
of his collaboration with James Lapine.

Into the Woods

Sondheim, Stephen. Into the Woods: vocal selections. Libretto by James Lapine.
[New York] : Rilting Music; Secaucus, N.J.: Warner Bros. Publications, c1988.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Sondheim, Stephen. Into the Woods. Libretto by James Lapine.
1st ed.
New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1989.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Sondheim's fairy tales for grownups, a second collaboration with
James Lapine. Bernadette Peters, who also appeared in Sunday in
the Park with George, here played the witch to excellent effect.

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