Order the Hirschfeld’s Sondheim poster book!<\/p>\n
USA Today Best-Selling Book!<\/p>\n
For the first time ever, Al Hirschfeld\u2019s iconic art of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s musicals are made available, packaged in an affordable, oversized removable poster book featuring texts by Bernadette Peters and Ben Brantley. Books are signed by author and Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Al Hirschfeld drew his first Sondheim show in 1957\u2014West Side Story<\/span>. Since then, in his iconic, illustrative style, Hirschfeld captured almost all of Sondheim\u2019s Broadway shows and several films featuring the composer\u2019s songs and scripts. Sondheim was a Hirschfeld collector, acquiring drawings directly from the artist and through his friends and collaborators like Hal Prince. In his last interview just five days before his death on November 26, 2021, the New York Times<\/span> ran a photo of Sondheim in his home with an image of Hirschfeld\u2019s Putting it Together<\/span> in the background.<\/p>\n This first volume in a series of deluxe Hirschfeld poster books, Hirschfeld\u2019s <\/span>Sondheim<\/span>, contains 25 of his art drawn from life before the opening night of each of Sondheim\u2019s productions. Hirschfeld\u2019s images capture the essence of the performances even better than the photographs of the shows. All of Sondheim\u2019s best-known plays are included\u2014West Side Story<\/span>, Follies<\/span>, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum<\/span>, Sweeney Todd<\/span>, Merrily We Roll <\/span>Along, and Sunday in the Park with George<\/span>\u2014in 25 ready-to-frame, removable art prints. All images will be scanned from the archives of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation. On the reverse side\u2014rare, ancillary images from the archives, as well as an introduction by Bernadette Peters, an essay by Ben Brantley, and text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld\u2019s archivist and creative director of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time ever, Al Hirschfeld\u2019s iconic art of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s musicals are made available, packaged in an affordable, oversized removable poster book featuring texts by Bernadette Peters and Ben Brantley. Books are signed by author and Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Al Hirschfeld drew his first Sondheim show in 1957\u2014West Side Story<\/span>. Since then, in his iconic, illustrative style, Hirschfeld captured almost all of Sondheim\u2019s Broadway shows and several films featuring the composer\u2019s songs and scripts. Sondheim was a Hirschfeld collector, acquiring drawings directly from the artist and through his friends and collaborators like Hal Prince. In his last interview just five days before his death on November 26, 2021, the New York Times<\/span> ran a photo of Sondheim in his home with an image of Hirschfeld\u2019s Putting it Together<\/span> in the background.<\/p>\n This first volume in a series of deluxe Hirschfeld poster books, Hirschfeld\u2019s <\/span>Sondheim<\/span>, contains 25 of his art drawn from life before the opening night of each of Sondheim\u2019s productions. Hirschfeld\u2019s images capture the essence of the performances even better than the photographs of the shows. All of Sondheim\u2019s best-known plays are included\u2014West Side Story<\/span>, Follies<\/span>, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum<\/span>, Sweeney Todd<\/span>, Merrily We Roll <\/span>Along, and Sunday in the Park with George<\/span>\u2014in 25 ready-to-frame, removable art prints. 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