<p>In high school, Stephen Sondheim put a script in front of his friend and mentor Oscar Hammerstein. "I want you to treat this as if it were a script that just came across your desk," Sondheim told the older man.</p><p>"In that case, it's the worst thing I ever read."</p><p>So Stephen Sondheim kept writing. He kept composing and in time he became the greatest composer Broadway had ever seen. </p><p>Beginning with the opening night of the classic musical <i>West Side Story</i> in 1957, and tracing Stephen's life from boyhood to his struggles as an up and coming Broadway composer/lyricist to a musical theater legend, Susan Rubin's <i>Putting It Together</i> draws readers into the passionate, tumultuous, and musical world of Stephen Sondheim.</p>
