Sondheim in Our Time and His

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