A Little Night Music: Vocal Score

New York: Revelation Music Publishing Company, (1975).

Price: $275.00

Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Perfectbound wrappers. A bit of soiling, very good plus. The vocal score for the original Broadway show, which had 601 performances and featured Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, and Glynis Johns. The score originally sold for $25, and is now very uncommon.

Item #81413

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Item #81413 A Little Night Music: Vocal Score. Stephen SONDHEIM, Hugh Wheeler.

Stephen Sondheim
birth name: Stephen Joshua Sondheim
born: 3/22/1930

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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