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If The Song Doesn't Work, Change Dress: Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt

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If The Song Doesn't Work, Change Dress: Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt
If The Song Doesn't Work, Change Dress: Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt

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If The Song Doesn't Work, Change Dress: Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt

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Told with Zipprodt's acerbic humor and delicious wit, charts her jourbaney to 1950s Greenwich Village, America's literary and artistic Bohemia. Tracking her career as it plunges into the developing Off-Broadway movement, and charting her personal and professional failures and successes collaborating with the biggest artists of the day - Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, and Bob Fosse - making her one of the most recognizable, and award-winning, designers of 20th-century theatre. Published in full color, this illustrated memoir includes pictures from Zipprodt's own archive including sketches, drawings, and photographs of her work from some of the most significant shows of the 20th century, including and and her work with such American theatre giants as Jo Mielziner, Irene Sharaff, José Quintero, Boris Aronson, Tony Walton, and Joel Grey, who provides a personal foreword to the memoir. Zipprodt's posthumous collaborator, theatre design historian Arnold Wengrow provides a vivid epilogue about her final battle with cancer. Drawing from her archive at the New York Public Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, he amplifies her recollections with letters, oral histories, and interviews she gave over the years to offer a portrait of an artist consistently working against the grain. will delight readers interested in Broadway, ballet, opera, and the history of costume design. Her lively anecdotes about New York theatre and working in Hollywood provide a rich insight into the life and work of a celebrated female creative giant of American theatre.

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