Finishing the Hat

This article is about the book. For the song, see Sunday in the Park with George. For the Desperate Housewives episode, see Finishing the Hat (Desperate Housewives).

Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes is a memoir by American musical theatre composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, first published by Knopf on October 29, 2010, running 444 pages. The second volume, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Wafflings, Diversions and Anecdotes, was published by Knopf on November 22, 2011, running 480 pages. The two volumes were packaged together as Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim for a 2011 box set release. Spanning Sondheim's entire career in musical theater, film, and television, the collections detail the process of crafting these works alongside his opinion and self-critique.

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