OLLI101632 - Sondheim: "Theater's Greatest Lyricist" [In-person at TUCC]

Course Description

Sondheim: "Theater's Greatest Lyricist"

Instructor: Toby Zinman

Day of Week: Tuesday

Dates: October 1 – November 19 (8 sessions)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Location: In-person at TUCC

Each week the curtain will rise on another of Stephen Sondheim's shows. We'll talk about eight of them ("Never do anything twice"), our homemade Broadway season. Here's how we'll do it: each week we will watch/listen to the assigned show at home; then you'll read the script with the music in your mind. Then, in class, we'll discuss the themes, characters and those amazing lyrics. I'll provide a brief lecture about material related to the show (ex: Seurat's paintings for Sunday in the Park with George).

Maximum: 30

Instructor Bio: Toby Zinman, retired Professor of English at the University of the Arts was awarded their prize for “Distinguished Teaching.” She has published widely and lectured internationally on American theatre. She has won five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, spent a semester as a Fulbright professor at Tel Aviv University, and spent another semester as a visiting lecturer in China. A former theatre critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she currently writes for phindie.com about the arts in New York and Philadelphia. She has written for the London Times and the New York Times, Variety and American Theatre magazine, and was named by that magazine “one of the twelve most influential critics in the U.S.” Her third career, as a widely published travel writer, has taken her all over the world, with adventures like dogsledding in the Yukon, walking coast-to-coast across England, and rounding up cattle on horseback in the Australian Outback.

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