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Sunday in the Park With George

Sunday in the Park with George

Shows · Sunday in the Park with George

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
Music: Stephen SondheimLyrics: Stephen SondheimBook: James Lapine

Productions6 on Broadway

1984 Booth Theatre Original. May 2, 1984 · James Lapine 604 performances · 2 Tony wins
1990 Transfer Theatre not recorded. March 15, 1990
1991 Sondheim Theatre Transfer.
1994 St James Theatre Revival. May 15, 1994 1 performances
2008 Revival Theatre not recorded. 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 3 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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In the literature5 passages

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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