On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide (45 page)

and innovation in Sondheim musicals,
16

and Sondheim’s success,
14

and
Sunday in the Park With George
,
121

The
String of Pearls
,
103
–
4

Stritch, Elaine,
73
,
75
,
78
,
82
,
174
–
77

Stroman, Susan,
16
,
140

Styne, Jule

and
Anyone Can Whistle
,
58

and cast recordings,
170

and film musicals,
154

and
Gypsy
,
44
,
45
–
46
,
47

influence on Sondheim,
7
,
18

and
Saturday Night
,
35

Sumac, Yma,
82

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
(Seurat),
119
,
119
n

Sunday in the Park With George
,
118–23

cast recordings,
175
n,
180

and chronology of Sondheim’s career,
15

and Sondheim characters,
68

and Sondheim’s creative control,
136

and Sondheim showstoppers,
75

Into the Woods
compared to,
125

Sunny
,
7

Sweeney Todd
,
103–9

and actor-singers,
138
,
139

and Beggar Woman’s purpose,
149

cast recordings,
179
,
185

and compositions by Sondheim,
36

as concept musical,
27

and evolution of Sondheim’s style,
10

and film musicals,
155
–
56

and gay content in Sondheim works,
15

and
Harvard Square
,
3

and innovation in Sondheim musicals,
16

A Little Night Music
compared to,
91

and
Merrily We Roll Along
,
114

original form of,
70

and power of narrative in musicals,
11

and Prince-Sondheim collaboration,
25

and Sondheim’s characters,
9
,
68

and
Sunday in the Park With George
,
120

Tarchetti, Ugo,
132
–
34
,
137

Taylor, Elizabeth,
91

Taylor, Joseph, Jr.,
117

Taymor, Julie,
62

Tchaikofsky, Pyotr Ilyich,
20

Thaxton, David,
135

The
Theatre Art of Boris Aronson
(Rich and Aronson),
98
–
99

Theatre Guild,
113

Threepenny Opera
,
106

Time
,
83

The
Time of the Cuckoo
,
60
–
61
,
63
–
64

Tony Awards,
43
,
47
–
48
,
83
,
121
–
22
,
139

Topper
series,
5
,
6
,
153

tragedy,
22

Trotsky, Leon,
151

Tunick, Jonathan,
35
,
92
–
93
,
109
,
151

Tutin, Dorothy,
91

Two Gentlemen of Verona
,
83

United Nations,
23
n

Uris Theatre,
109

The
Uses of Enchantment
(Bettelheim),
126

Vail, Amanda,
40
–
41

Vale, Michael,
140

Valentino, Rudolph,
35

Van Druten, John,
7

Variety
,
129

vaudeville,
44
,
50
,
77
,
110
,
121
,
146

Venuti, Lawrence,
133

Verdi, Giuseppe,
133

Vico, Giambattista,
11

Vidal, Gore,
24

Vietnam War,
79
–
80

Von Stade, Frederica,
91

Wagner, Chuck,
124

Walston, Ray,
15

Walton, Jim,
110
,
115
n

Weaver, Sigourney,
142

Weidman, John

and
Assassins
,
16
,
128
–
31

and cast recordings,
182

and
Pacific Overtures
,
96
,
97

and
Road Show
,
144
–
46

and
Sweeney Todd
,
10

Weigel, Helene,
29

Weill, Kurt,
25
,
88

Weissenbach, James,
115

Weissmuller, Johnny,
113

Werther
,
135

Westenberg, Robert,
124

The
Western Canon
,
11
–
12

West Side Story
,
37–43

Anyone Can Whistle
compared to,
55

and Bernstein’s influence on Sondheim,
17
,
24
–
25

and Big Broadway background of Sondheim,
119

cast recordings,
168
–
69
,
171

and evolution of Sondheim’s style,
9
,
20

and film musicals,
154

and
Follies
,
77

Gypsy
compared to,
45

impact on Sondheim’s career,
7
,
8

and innovation in Sondheim musicals,
12
–
14
,
102

and inspiration for Sondheim’s musicals,
104

and Kert,
69

Pacific Overtures
compared to,
97

production costs,
13
n

Robbins’s criticism of,
46

Wheeler, Hugh,
10
,
86
,
88
–
91
,
93
–
94
,
96
,
104

Wilder, Thornton,
157

Wildflower
,
7

Wilkie, Wendell,
23
n

Williams, Emlyn,
3

Williams, Tennessee,
73

Williams, Vanessa,
125

Williams College,
3

Winchell, Walter,
113

Wise Guys
,
146
–
48
,
147
n

Wisener, Jayne,
155

Wodehouse, P. G.,
11

Woollcott, Alexander,
145

Youmans, Vincent,
7

Zaks, Jerry,
16
,
128

Zangara, Giuseppe,
129
–
30

Zeta-Jones, Catherine,
91
,
95

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
28
n,
78
–
79
,
82

The
Ziegfeld Follies
(1946),
58
,
77
,
81