Sunday in the Park with George(Applause Libretto Library). This 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical was inspired by the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. A complex work revolving around a fictionalized Seurat immersed in single-minded concentration while painting the masterpiece, the production has evolved into a meditation on art, emotional connection, and community. This publication contains the entire script of the musical. " Sunday is itself a modernist creation, perhaps the first truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has produced ... a watershed event that demands nothing less than a retrospective, even revisionist, look at the development of the serious Broadway musical." Frank Rich, The New York Times Magazine |
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ALEX Arpeggiated chord Art isn't easy artist Barbara Bryne Beat beautiful begins BETTY BLAIR DANIELS Blue blue blue BOATMAN Brent Spiner Bumbum bum canvas CELESTE Charles Kimbrough Children and art Chromolume color and light cut-out Dana Ivey Danielle Ferland DENNIS Dot Bernadette Peters draw ELAINE enters exits eyes fade FIFI Finishing FRANZ FRIEDA George looks George Mandy Patinkin GEORGE Sings George's GREENBERG HARRIET PAWLING island James Lapine Jatte Judith Moore JULES and YVONNE Kurt Knudson laughs LOUISE loves Louis Madame Mama MARTHA SWOPE Mary D'Arcy Melanie Vaughan move museum Music continues Nancy Opel never nods NURSE offstage OLD LADY painting Park with George Philip Quast Playwrights Horizons Purple yellow red Robert Westenberg Seurat's sketching Sniffs SOLDIER TO COMPANION Soldiers and Girls Sondheim stage staring Stephen Sondheim Sunday theater There's things Tony Straiges tree turns upstage WONNE Yoo-Hoo YOUNG