MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Georges Seurat, Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
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Sunday in the park with george and assassins. Georges seurat: credits, characters, source, genesis, musical examples. Assassins: who is john weidman, credits, characters, etc, musical examples. No real plot: sondheim: up unil company, most musicals, if not all musicals, had plots. Up unil company, i thought that musicals had to have very strong plots. One of the things that fascinated me about the challenge of the show was to see if a musical could be done without one the problem to ind the form for it. Follies (1971) 522 p: with bookwriter james goldman, producer-director harold prince, choreographer michael bennet, and set designer boris aronson, based on a newspaper clipping (original) A litle night music (1973) 601 p: with bookwriter hugh wheeler, producer-director prince, choreographer patricia. Birch, and set designer aronson: based on a ilm, smiles of a summer night, by ingmar bergman. Paciic overtures (1976) 193 p: with bookwriter john weidman, producer-director prince, and set designer.
