ARLEN, Harold; JABLONSKI, Edward

Harold Arlen. Happy with the Blues

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1961. 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow-' With a Signed Photograph of the Composer Harold Arlen [ARLEN, Harold]. JABLONSKI, Edward. Harold Arlen. Happy with the Blues. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1961. With a signed photograph of Harold Arlen dated "aug. - 14 - 72"" pasted to the half-title. First edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 152 mm.). [1-11], 12-286 pp. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Publishers black cloth over boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt and blue, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy in a price-clipped printed dust jacket with a couple of neat tape repairs on lower edge. Affixed to the half-title is a black & white photograph signed “Harold Arlen - Aug - 14-72” Harold Arlen, born Hyman Arluck; (1905-1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over five hundred songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including "Over the Rainbow", which won him the Oscar for Best Original Song, he was nominated as composer for eight other Oscar awards. Arlen was a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's Number 1 song by the RIAA and the NEA. .

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Book number: 05875

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: JABLONSKI, Edward Film Signed Photograph

SONDHEIM, Stephen; LAPINE, James

Sunday in the Park with George

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986. One of Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Signed by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Together with Typed Letter Signed and a Signed Photograph SONDHEIM, Stephen. LAPINE, James. Sunday in the Park with George. A Musical. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1966]. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Sondheim and Lapine. Small octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm.). [1]-203, [1, blank] pp. Photogravure portrait of Georges Seurat on p. 14. "Of the first edition of Sunday in the Park with George two hundred and fifty copies have been specially bound, numbered, and signed by the authors. This is copy no. "87" [signed] Stephen" Sondheim [&] "James Lapine" (limitation leaf). Publisher's green cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in the original green cloth slipcase , front panel with printed paper label. Loosely inserted is a TLS to a Mr. Palmer regarding his request for a signed photograph and also the signed 5 1/4 x 6 1/8 inch black & white photograph signed by Stephen Sondheim. Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884–1886). The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for design (and a nomination for Best Musical), numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical, and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production. It has enjoyed several major revivals, including the 2005–06 UK production first presented at the Menier Chocolate Factory, its subsequent 2008 Broadway transfer, and a 2017 Broadway revival. Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930-2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. With his frequent collaborations with Harold Prince and James Lapine, Sondheim's Broadway musicals tackled unexpected themes that ranged beyond the genre's traditional subjects, while addressing darker elements of the human experience. His music and lyrics were tinged with complexity, sophistication, and ambivalence about various aspects of life. James Elliot Lapine (1949-) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. .

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Book number: 05878

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: LAPINE, James Signed Limited Edition Theater Signed Photograph