Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical

By (author): "Stephen Sondheim"
Publish Date: November 30th 1983
Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical
ISBN0396086004
ISBN139780396086000
AsinSunday In The Park With George: A Musical
CharactersGeorges Seurat
Original titleSunday in the Park with George
Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Sondheim and Lapine's musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art. 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In the first half of the musical set in 1884 the people - and the animals - in the painting come to life in a world where for the artist Georges art comes before love before everything. In the second half a century later Seurat's great-grandson is wrestling with the same obsessions in present-day New York. 'The first truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has ever produced' New York Times 'penetrates the mystery of artistic creation... overpoweringly affecting... what a show this is... irresistible' Daily Telegraph 'This is great musical theatre' Sunday Times 'a witty moving magical essay on the agonies and ecstasies of being an artist... Not to be missed' Mail on Sunday