How Long to Read Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical

How Long Does it Take to Read Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical by Robert L. McLaughlin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, has established him as the preeminent composer/lyricist of his, if not all, time. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-style musical that had dominated Broadway stages for twenty years to a new postmodern musical. This new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century musical that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of language. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.

How long is Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical?

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical by Robert L. McLaughlin is 322 pages long, and a total of 81,144 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 23 minutes to read Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical aloud.

What Reading Level is Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical?

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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