Sunday in the Park with George
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1986).
Price: $3,500.00
Hardcover. First edition, limited and signed issue. Fine in fine slipcase. Issued without dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by both Sondheim and Lapine. A very desirable edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning play which featured Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in the original production.
Item #556493
Stephen Sondheim
birth name: Stephen Joshua Sondheim
born: 3/22/1930
Biography
Acclaimed composer and lyricist. As a child he befriended famed lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. After graduating from Williams College he studied music on a fellowship, then moved to Hollywood and began writing scripts for the television series Topper. After returning to New York he first achieved fame with the lyrics for West Side Story (1957). He expanded to both music and lyrics with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962). Many other successful musicals followed, including what some call his masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George (1984).more