![]() ![]() It had always been my hope that the interview with Sondheim would someday be published in full, but it has taken several years for that to happen. The interview with Sondheim took place on the afternoon of October 29 in his rooms at the Watergate Hotel, and the show opened the following evening. I also attended the Sitzprobe in Washington on October 16-a rehearsal where the musicians and cast play and sing the show together for the first time (held in this case, as is typical, in a rehearsal hall)-and saw the second preview on October 22. The interviews with Weidman and Tunick informed my interview with Sondheim, and excerpts from all three interviews were included in the article. I also conducted interviews with John Weidman, the show’s author, and Jonathan Tunick, its orchestrator (a frequently rescheduled interview with Prince never took place). In preparation for my article and the interview with Sondheim, I attended the production in Chicago and exchanged emails with him about that version. After a hiatus of a couple of months, that evolving production opened for a limited run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2003. ![]() Work progressed slowly, until the show, now named Bounce-and directed by Harold Prince-had a limited run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the summer of 2003. When he took up the idea again, it was first realized as a reading vĪt the New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 1999 under the title Wise Guys (directed by Sam Mendes). Sondheim first considered musicalizing the story in the early 1950s, but abandoned the project when he learned that Irving Berlin was working on a musical on the same subject-a show that never materialized. Based on the real-life Mizner brothers, Bounce/Road Show has a long and complicated history. The interview was conducted to inform an article I was writing for The Sondheim Review on the show’s evolution and birth. The first new interview focuses entirely on the show Bounce (2003), which subsequently found its final form in the significantly altered Road Show (2008). The “Song Listing, Discography, and Publishing Information” section has also been updated and expanded. ![]() Combined, they add about sixty percent to the interview portion of the book. Unlike the first set of interviews, which had not been conducted with any intention that they would be published, I hoped from the beginning that these would be, and the most recent interview was done specifically for this edition and is its primary justification. This second edition of Sondheim on Music features two new interviews with Sondheim. Given the opportunity to interview Sondheim, I became his actual student, though I thought of myself as a surrogate for whoever might someday have access to the interviews in one form or another. The work itself was also an example of the notion that art is most effective when coupled with craft. It helped me understand the world, gave me a vocabulary to discuss it, and provided music to accompany it and add emotional depth. His work taught me about psychology, behavior, history, language, ambivalence, and irony. Stephen Sondheim became my teacher long before we met. Part III: Song Listing, Discography, and Publishing Information Part II: Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least in Part) ™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Musicals-United States-Analysis, appreciation. Sondheim, Stephen-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Sondheim on music : minor details and major decisions / Mark Eden Horowitz. British Cataloging in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Horowitz, Mark Eden. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2010 by The Library of Congress All rights reserved. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. ![]()
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