Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a
Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His career has spanned more than
half a century, his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and
popular culture, and in Finishing the Hat--titled after perhaps his most
autobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park with George--Sondheim has not
only collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a rare
personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. Along with
the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to 1981--including West Side Story,
Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and