The run closed October 13, 1985
- Opened
- May 2, 1984
- Closed
- October 13, 1985
- Performances
- 604
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Booth Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 34th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sunday in the Park with George 5 more that season
| 1990 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1991 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer | |
| 1994 | St James Theatre Revival | 1 perf. |
| 2008 | Revival Revival | 149 perf. |
| 2017 | Hudson Theatre Revival · Sarna Lapine | 61 perf. |
Who was in it29 named
Mary D Arcy
Sue Anne Gershenson
John Jellison
Kurt Knudson
Michele Rigan
Melanie Vaughan
Jeff Keller
Frank Kopyc
Sherri Lynn Leidy
T J Meyers
Sarah Bethany Reynolds
19 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- James Lapine
- Producer
- Shubert Organization & Emanuel Azenberg
- Orchestrations
- Michael Starobin
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 2 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Sunday in the Park with George, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
The entire first act literally builds Seurat\'s painting on stage, dot by dot. The show won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- 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. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 338
- "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." Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 314
- 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… The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 610
- Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 392
- SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE 604 performances Opened May 2, 1984; Closed October 13, 1985 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 301
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 3 recordings of Sunday in the Park with George document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.