Sunday in the Park with George [1986] (TV) Stephen Sondheim torrent download



Sunday in the Park with George (1986) (TV) 





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Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The 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, its Broadway production was greeted with mixed praise by the critics.








 Mandy Patinkin ...  Georges Seurat / George 


 Bernadette Peters ...  Dot / Marie 


 Barbara Bryne ...  Old Lady / Blair Daniels 


 Mary D'Arcy ...  Celeste #2 / Elaine 


 Sue Anne Gershenson ...  Woman / Photographer 


 Cris Groenendaal ...  Louis / Billy Webster 


 Dana Ivey ...  Yvonne / Naomi Eisen 


 John Jellison ...  Man with bicycle / Museum Assistant 


 Charles Kimbrough ...  Jules / Bob Greenberg 


 Frank Kopyc ...  Mr. / Lee Randolph 


 Judith Moore ...  Nurse / Mrs. / Harriet Pawling 


 Nancy Opel ...  Frieda / Betty 


 William Parry ...  Boatman / Charles Redmond 


 Natalie Polizzi ...  Louise 


 Michele Rigan ...  Girl 








Nominated for ten Tony Awards, the musical won only two design awards but won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production (analogous to the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical). It has enjoyed several major revivals, including the 2005-06 UK production first presented at the Menier Chocolate Factory and its subsequent 2008 Broadway transfer.





Following the failure and scathing critical reception of Merrily We Roll Along in 1981 (the show closed after 16 performances), Sondheim announced his intention to leave the musical theatre to write mystery novels. He was persuaded by Lapine to return to the theatrical world after the two were inspired by "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", the masterpiece of the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat. Lapine noted that one major figure was missing from the canvas: the artist himself. This observation provided the springboard for the creation of "Sunday" and the production evolved into a meditation on art, emotional connection and community.





The musical fictionalizes the life of Seurat. In fact none of his children survived beyond infancy and he had no grandchildren. Seurat's common-law wife was Madeleine Knobloch, who gave birth to his two sons, the second after his death. Unlike Dot in the story, she lived with Seurat at the time of his death and she did not emigrate to America but died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 35.





When the show opened to subscription audiences at the Off Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons starring Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in July 1983, it comprised only the first act and even that was still in development. The first act was fleshed out and work began on the second during that time and the complete two-act show was premièred during the last three performances. After seeing the show at Playwrights, composer Leonard Bernstein wrote to his friend Sondheim, calling the show "brilliant, deeply conceived, canny, magisterial and by far the most personal statement I've heard from you thus far. Bravo." Following its 25 performance run at Playwrights the show transferred to the Booth Theatre on Broadway on May 2, 1984, but the second act was finalised and the show "frozen" only a few days before the opening.





When Sunday opened on Broadway it received mixed responses from critics. The New York Times theatre critic, Frank Rich, wrote: "I do know... that Mr. Sondheim and Mr. Lapine have created an audacious, haunting and, in its own intensely personal way, touching work. Even when it fails - as it does on occasion - Sunday in the Park is setting the stage for even more sustained theatrical innovations yet to come." Sunday enjoyed a healthy box office, though the show would ultimately lose money; it closed after 604 performances.





Even though it was considered a brilliant artistic achievement for Sondheim and was nominated for ten Tony Awards it won only two, both for design. The major winner of the night was Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles In his acceptance speech Herman noted that the "simple, hummable tune" was still alive on Broadway, a remark some perceived as criticism of Sondheim's pointillistic score. (Herman has since denied that that was his intent.)





 


A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande JatteThough widely shunned at the Tonys, Sunday won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical and Sondheim and Lapine were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, only the sixth time a musical had been so honoured.





Sunday in the Park with George was taped on October 21-25, 1985 at the Booth Theatre with most of the original Broadway cast. It was broadcast on American television on February 18, 1986 on Showtime and on June 16, 1986 on Public Television's "American Playhouse". (Bernadette Peters, who was performing in Song and Dance at the time of the taping, was given time off from that play in order to be able to tape this production.)
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