Sunday in the Park with George
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Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
- Opened
- 1984
- Performances
- 604
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions6 on Broadway
| 1984 | Booth Theatre Original. May 2, 1984 · James Lapine | 604 performances · 2 Tony wins |
| 1990 | Transfer Theatre unknown. March 15, 1990 | |
| 1991 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer. March 15, 1990 | |
| 1994 | St James Theatre Revival. May 15, 1994 | 1 performances |
| 2008 | Studio 54 Revival. February 21, 2008 | 149 performances |
| 2017 | Hudson Theatre Revival. February 23, 2017 · Sarna Lapine | 61 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Sunday in the Park with George matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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5 passages naming Sunday in the Park with George, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
This limited engagement revival of Sondheim’s 1984 classic was praised for its innovative set design, including a 3-D animation of the famous painting by Georges Seurat. Evans and Russell received Tony nominations for their performances as George and Dot. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p338
"While SUNDAY won the Pulitzer, the show and Sondheim’s score were passed over for the Tony Awards by a vastly inferior Jerry Herman musical." book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p314
During the decade-long artistic directorship of André Bishop (1981 to 1992), Playwrights Horizons was an especially fertile environment for director and playwright James Lapine. When he and Sondheim began to collaborate, it was there where they developed two of their works: the Pulitzer Prize–winning Sunday in the Park… book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p610
Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p392
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE 604 performances Opened May 2, 1984; Closed October 13, 1985 book:theatre-world-2003-04-season-v-60-willis#p301
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