Read On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide Online
Authors: Ethan Mordden
Brecht, Bertolt,
9
,
27
,
29
,
74
,
95
,
102
,
121
Bridewell Theatre,
35
The
Bridge of San Luis Rey
(Wilder),
157
Brook, Peter,
28
Brown, Geraldine,
143
Bruce, Carol,
64
Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
1
–
2
Burton, Richard,
135
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969),
73
n
Byrnes, Eddie,
57
n
Callas, Maria,
139
Cantor, Eddie,
52
Capote, Truman,
15
Carlisle, Kitty,
113
Carr, Jean,
88
Carradine, David,
49
Carroll, Leo G.,
5
Carter, Helena Bonham,
155
Cassidy, Jack,
153
Cassidy, Patrick,
128
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
,
81
Cerveris, Michael,
144
Chan, Charlie,
101
Charlie Chan
s,
101
Church, Sandra,
47
coherence,
21
n
Cohn, Roy,
15
Collier, John,
150
Comden, Betty,
154
Company
,
66–76
Allegro
’s influence on,
22
cast recordings,
173
–
74
,
175
n,
179
–
80
,
183
–
86
and chronology of Sondheim’s career,
150
and the concept musical,
25
,
28
and creative staging,
123
and difficulties of marriage,
64
and evolution of Sondheim’s style,
9
–
16
and film musicals,
156
and inspirations for Sondheim’s musicals,
104
A Little Night Music
compared to,
93
Robert modeled on Anthony Perkins,
149
and Sondheim’s break from stage musicals,
150
and Stritch,
78
and Tunick,
109
concept musicals
and
Assassins
,
129
,
131
and cast recordings,
172
–
73
,
183
and
Pacific Overtures
,
96
,
102
and Sondheim-Prince collaborations,
25
–
29
The
Cook
,
88
Corelli, Franco,
139
Crawford, Joan,
81
Creel, Gavin,
144
Cregar, Laird,
3
Cuervo, Alma,
142
Culkin Kit,
154
n
Dale, Grover,
82
Dale, Jim,
45
Damn Yankees
,
15
Damon, Stuart,
64
Dance a Little Closer
,
15
Dancers Over Forty
,
43
Darnell, Linda,
3
Davies, Brian,
49
Davis, Daniel,
140
Day, Clarence,
144
Day, Edith,
7
Dear World
,
122
Debussy, Claude,
1
De Carlo, Yvonne,
77
Dench, Judi,
91
Der Rosenklavier
(Strauss),
92
The
Desert Song
,
20
Diamond, David,
24
Dick Tracy
(1990),
152
Do I Hear a Waltz?
,
60–65
cast recordings,
171
,
185
and chronology of Sondheim’s career,
150
and Sondheim-Prince collaboration,
9
and Sondheim’s Big Broadway background,
119
D’Orsay, Fifi,
82
Drake, Alfred,
8
Dramatists Guild of America,
17
,
23
,
41
Dreamgirls
,
84
Duncan, Isadora,
79
n
Duperey, Anny,
151
Dvonch, Frederick,
48
Ebb, Fred,
25
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
(Mozart),
87
Elder, Claybourne,
144
Ellis, Mary,
8
Epstein, Philip G.,
33
Esparza, Raül,
68
ethnic stereotypes,
14
Evangeline
,
149
The
Exception and the Rule
,
9
experimental musicals,
15
–
16
.
See also
concept musicals
Falstaff
(Verdi),
133
farce,
52
Ferland, Danielle,
157