"Sondheim expert Sandor Goodhart and an invited group of world-renowned scholars and critics discuss and analyze Sondheim's major productions and themes using various critical methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism, formalism, psychoanalysis, historicism, and other postmodernist perspectives. In short, this volume offers all the substance one needs to appreciate and understand Stephen Sondheim's work and sets the standard of excellence against which future Sondheim scholarship will be measured."--BOOK JACKET.