The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theaters most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheims numerous collaboratorsfrom composers and directors to designers and orchestraskey songssuch as his Academy Award winner Sooner or Later (Dick Tracy)and major worksincluding Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also contains information about Sondheims mentoring by Oscar Hammerstein II and his early collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, and profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheims songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters.

Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this comprehensive resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.