The Sondheim Celebration (review)
2003; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tj.2003.0067
ISSN1086-332X
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoCharley Kringas and Georges Seurat may seem an unlikely duo to connect the two halves of the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration. In a sense, however, they represent the author himself. In Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday in the Park with George, Charley and Georges are artists who refuse to compromise. Both resist trading their beliefs and ideals for popular approval. The same can be said of Stephen Sondheim, who throughout his career has reinvented the form of the Broadway musical. Writing about subject matter as unfamiliar and diverse as dysfunctional relationships, murderous barbers, the opening of Japan to trade, the nature of beauty, and the creation of art, itself, Sondheim has been championed by many, but vilified by some critics and audiences for deconstructing the same popular art form through which he chooses to express himself.
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