MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture 9: Mar16_Sondheimcont
22 Mar 2017
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With bookwriter james goldman, producer-director harold prince, choreographer michael bennett, and set designer boris aronson. Goldman worked on a tv musical with sondheim. About evening entertainments for a reunion of follie girls. With bookwriter hugh wheeler, producer-director prince, choreographer patricia birch, and set designer aronson. Based on film smiles of a summer night by ingmar bergman atypical to use film as a source. With bookwriter john weidman, producer-director prince, and set designer aronson. Based on a play by george kaufman and moss hart. Sondheim and prince worked together on 6 shows over 11 years. After merrily closed, they parted, and sondheim again found himself looking for the right collaborator. He was trying something new with each product. It made shows that ran few performances impossible. You needed to know that it was successful. Putting a show on broadway is the most expensive in the world. Increasing number of tourists in audiences demographics of audience change, broader, more international.
