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Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
Hardcover
MusiciansBroadway & MusicalsGeneral Music
Publisher Price: $20.99
ISBN13: 9780063279810
Publisher: Harper
Published: Nov 22 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
Brazenly entertaining. . . . It summons to the page a Broadway voice like no other.--Los Angeles Times
[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process.--Vulture
An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life--conversations that show the composer-lyricist as he has likely never been seen before.
In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly, that process - and the years of conversation - was cut short by Sondheim's own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artist's death in November 2021.
Now, Max has taken the raw version of these conversations and knit them together into an unforgettable work of literature and celebration. Finale reveals Sondheim--a star who disliked the spotlight--at his most relaxed, thoughtful, sardonic, and engaging, as he talks about work, music, movies, family, New York City, aging, the creative process, and much more.
Max brings you into the room and gives you a front row seat for their unusual and intimate three-year-long pas de deux. The two bond, spar, separate, and reunite, as Max elicits from Sondheim a candor and vulnerability he seldom displayed in public.
This is a unique portrait of an artist in his twilight, offering remarkable insight into the mind and heart of a genius whose work changed American musical theater and popular culture forever.
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