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Lot 1069

SONDHEIM, STEPHEN. B.1930.
Archive of eleven playbills (many with ticket stubs) and a framed color photograph of Mr. Sondheim admiring George Seurat's Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte taken and signed by playwright James Lapine.

6 – 13 December 2018, 10:00 EST
New York

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SONDHEIM, STEPHEN. B.1930.

Archive of eleven playbills (many with ticket stubs) and a framed color photograph of Mr. Sondheim admiring George Seurat's Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte taken and signed by playwright James Lapine. Various sizes and conditions.
Provenance: Sondheim photograph a gift from James Lapine.

As both lyricist and composer, Stephen Sondheim has earned his place as the master of the modern musical comedy. He made his mark with his lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957) and Jule Styne's Gypsy (1959); and he went on to produce such brilliant experimental and divergent shows as Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979) and Assassins (1990). This playbill collection covers the arc of Mr. Sondheim's phenomenal career; included is a program for the 1974 revival of Gypsy signed by its star Angela Lansbury and another for Assassins autographed by Michael Cerveris in 2004. Seurat's famous Pointillist painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in the Art Institute of Chicago inspired one of Mr. Sondheim's most celebrated and enduring musicals, Sunday in the Park with George (1984).

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