"FINISHING THE HAT..." by STEPHEN SONDHEIM by Alan Gomberg

"Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre" by Ethan Mordden by Alan Gomberg

The scope of this book allows him to do things that he could not do in the decade-by-decade series. For example, in a chapter titled "The Rodgers and Hammerstein Handbook," he covers all the…

"Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical" by Alan Gomberg

Much of Todd Decker's Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical should prove fascinating to readers who have a deep interest in the creation and performance history of this classic, …

Book Review: "A Ship Without a Sail:The Life of Lorenz Hart" by Alan Gomberg

It seems that any biographer of Lorenz Hart has to deal with a basic difficulty: relatively little is known about Hart's private life. Although his public life was well-documented, his priva…

Book Review: "Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady" by Alan Gomberg

Dominic McHugh's Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady is the latest book to recount the history of a single musical in a scholarly and analytical fashion.

Book Review: "Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater" by Jeffrey Magee by Alan Gomberg

When people discuss the great innovators of the American musical, certain names-Hammerstein, Kern, Sondheim, Prince, Gershwin-are likely to be mentioned, but Irving Berlin is not one of them…

Book Review: Stephen Sondheim's "Look, I Made a Hat" by Alan Gomberg

The book covers Sondheim's musicals written after 1981 ... along with miscellany from all periods of his career, including a handful of lyrics from his student work.