Details
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Title
LOOK, I MADE A HAT [Signed]
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Author
Sondheim, Stephen
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
First Edition, First Printing
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Pages
480
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
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Date
2011
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Illustrated
Yes
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Features
Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
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Bookseller's Inventory #
1381586
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ISBN
9780307593412 / 030759341X
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Weight
3.25 lbs (1.47 kg)
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Dimensions
10.99 x 8.42 x 1.16 in (27.91 x 21.39 x 2.95 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1980's
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
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Library of Congress subjects
Songs, Musicals
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2011014604
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Dewey Decimal Code
782.140
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From the publisher
Stephen Sondheim has written award-winning music and lyrics for theater, film and television. He is also the coauthor of the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder. Sondheim is on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981. He lives in New York City.
Media reviews
“Sondheim is a national treasure, a giant in the world of musical theater who changed the structure and sound of the form in 20th-century masterpieces. Speaking of heaven, though, here's Look, I Made a Hat, the second part of Sondheim's two-volume collection of lyrics, this one spanning 1981-2011, with additional bits and pieces. Talmudically thorough and devilishly diverting with what the author refers to as ‘attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes, and miscellany,’ the book is divine. It's also even more magnanimously authoritative than the first book. The handsomely designed book, like the first volume, contains illuminating reproductions of pages from the author's beloved legal pads on which he works out rhyme schemes, as well as annotated scripts and pages of musical notations. And the second volume is brimming — a word Sondheim would probably dismiss as ‘infelicitous’ — with precise, vigorous, instructive, sharp-tongued, and often very funny comments. Look, I Made a Hat, together with Finishing the Hat, makes an enormously satisfying journal by one of the great theatrical minds of our time, a guide and touchstone for who knows how many future great theatrical minds. A” —Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
“While the book technically covers Mr. Sondheim’s output from 1981 to the present, aficionados will delight in all the bits and bobs from early in his career that Mr. Sondheim didn’t make room for in the first volume . . . The extensive miscellany also includes a drawerful of lyrics Mr. Sondheim wrote as birthday gifts for friends like Harold Prince, Mary Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein. One of the choicest pleasures of the first volume was in Mr. Sondheim’s sharp-minded analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of musical theater lyricists from the past. He’s covered most of that territory already, so the new book features essays on ‘Awards and Their Uselessness’ and ‘Critics and Their Uses’ — savory reading.” —Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/02/2011, Page 81
- New York Times Book Review, 12/18/2011, Page 17
- People Weekly, 08/13/2012, Page 49
About the author
STEPHEN SONDHEIM wrote award-winning music and lyrics for theater, film, and television. He is the author of Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) and Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011). He is also the coauthor of the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder. Sondheim was on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981. He lived in New York City. He died in 2021.