Editing Pastiche (section)

===Musical theatre===
In musical theatre, pastiche is often an indispensable tool for evoking the sounds of a particular era for which a show is set. For the 1971 musical ''[[Follies]]'', a show about a reunion of performers from a musical [[revue]] set between the World Wars, [[Stephen Sondheim]] wrote over a dozen songs in the style of Broadway songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s. Sondheim imitates not only the music of composers such as [[Cole Porter]], [[Irving Berlin]], [[Jerome Kern]], and [[George Gershwin]] but also the lyrics of writers such as [[Ira Gershwin]], [[Dorothy Fields]], [[Otto Harbach]], and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]. For example, Sondheim notes that the torch song "[[Losing My Mind]]" sung in the show contains "near-stenciled rhythms and harmonies" from the Gershwins' [[The Man I Love (song)|"The Man I Love"]] and lyrics written in the style of Dorothy Fields.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Stephen |last=Sondheim |author-link=Stephen Sondheim |chapter=Follies |title=[[Finishing the Hat]] |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |date=2010 |page=235}}</ref> Examples of musical pastiche also appear in other Sondheim shows including [[Gypsy (musical)|''Gypsy'']], [[Saturday Night (musical)|''Saturday Night'']], [[Assassins (musical)|''Assassins'']], and ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]''.{{sfn|Sondheim|2010|page=200}}