Finishing the Hat  8692

Collected lyrics (1954-1981), with attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, And Anecdotes

  • Note to the reader
  • Cast of characters
    1. Oscar Hammerstein II
    2. Richard Rodgers
    3. Jerome Kern
    4. Phyllis McGinley
    5. Noël Coward
    6. Lorenz Hart
    7. Alfred Newman
    8. Maxwell Anderson
    9. Truman Capote
    10. Anthony Burgess
    11. Langston Hughes
    12. DuBose Heyward
    13. Richard Wilbur
    14. W. H. Auden
    15. John Kander
    16. Fred Ebb
    17. Jerry Bock
    18. Sheldon Harnick
    19. Charles Strouse
    20. Lee Adams
    21. Irving Berlin
    22. Ira Gershwin
    23. Cole Porter
    24. George Gershwin
    25. Frank Loesser
    26. Dorothy Fields
    27. Leonard Bernstein
    28. Craig Carnelia
    29. E. Y. Harburg
    30. Kurt Weill
    31. Lionel Bart
    32. Alan Jay Lerner
    33. Frederick Loewe
    34. Leo Robin
    35. Jule Styne
    36. Sammy Cahn
    37. Betty Comden and Adolph Green
    38. Nacio Herb Brown
    39. Ray Henderson
    40. Harold Arlen
    41. Cy Coleman
    42. Morton Gould
    43. Jimmy McHugh
    44. Anne Caldwell
    45. Carolyn Leigh
    46. Sigmund Romberg
    47. Burton Lane
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Rhyme and Its Reasons
  1. Saturday Night
  2. West Side Story
  3. Gypsy
  4. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  5. Anyone Can Whistle
  6. Do I Hear a Waltz?
  7. Company
  8. Follies
  9. A Little Night Music
  10. The Frogs
  11. Pacific Overtures
  12. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  13. Merrily We Roll Along
Interspersed with frank, witty, pithy, sometimes almost vicious, portraits of
  • Frank Loesser: The idea man
  • Alan Jay Lerner: No There There
  • Oscar Hammerstein II: Upward Nobility
  • E. Y. Harburg: Word Drunk
  • Ira Gershwin: Rhyming Poison
  • Irving Berlin: Deceptive Simplicity
  • Cole Porter: Camp and Dazzle
  • Dorothy Fields: Wry and Dry
  • Noël Coward: The Master of Blather
  • W. A. Gilbert: An Unacquired Taste
And an:
  • Appendix: Original Broadway Productions

Topics covered by this book

  1. Pacific Overtures (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  2. The Frogs (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  3. Saturday Night (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  4. A Little Night Music (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  5. Merrily We Roll Along (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  6. Follies (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  7. Sweeney Todd (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  8. Company (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  9. Do I Hear A Waltz? (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  10. Anyone Can Whistle (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  11. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  12. Gypsy (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
  13. West Side Story (drama) • libretto and analysis by Sondheim
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