Company: the "Author's Edition"?

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Company: the "Author's Edition"?

Posted: 9/6/12 at 6:25pm

Does anybody have this version? http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8437189278&searchurl=an%3Dsondheim%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3Dcompany If you do, could you tell me more about it? I have the purple one, but this looks like something I might want to have. :)

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Updated On: 9/6/12 at 06:25 PM

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Posted: 9/6/12 at 6:27pm

The Complete Collection is purple. I think they just have the covers mixed up between the Complete one and the '95 Revival folio on that website.

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Posted: 9/6/12 at 6:29pm

Huh. My purple one's got Marry Me a Little at the end of Act 1, but no cut material or commentary like the description says. Very confused!

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Posted: 9/6/12 at 6:30pm

Hmm... Maybe there's ANOTHER purple COMPANY folio?

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Posted: 9/6/12 at 6:33pm

Maybe! It's the 1996 printing. It's just the libretto, the amalgamation of Roundabout and Donmar. What IS in the Complete Collection thing, though? Is it worth having? Or is the material similar to what's in Finishing the Hat?

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Posted: 9/6/12 at 7:46pm

The Author's Edition is sheet music. It features every song in the score, with "Marry Me a Little" and the songs completely cut. The piano arrangements are taken from Sondheim's own manuscripts.

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Posted: 9/6/12 at 8:04pm

Cool. Thanks.

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