Sunday in the Park with George - 2017 Broadway History , Info & More
Hudson Theatre (Broadway)
141 W. 44th St. New York, NY
Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, who both earned raves for their portrayals, will return to their roles, and will mark the second major Broadway revival of Sondheim and Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
Sondheim and Lapine's masterpiece follows painter Georges Seurat (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the months leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Consumed by his need to "finish the hat," Seurat alienates the French bourgeoisie, spurns his fellow artists, and neglects his lover Dot (Annaleigh Ashford), not realizing that his actions will reverberate over the next 100 years.
Sunday in the Park with George is produced on Broadway by Adam Speers for Ambassador Theatre Group, New York City Center, Jeanine Tesori, and Riva Marker.
Sunday in the Park with George - 2017 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Sunday in the Park with George
Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See
9 / 10
He is a thorny soul, a man neither happy nor particularly kind, and not someone you'd be likely to befriend. But when the 19th-century French painter Georges Seurat, reincarnated in the solitary flesh by a laser-focused Jake Gyllenhaal, demands that you look at the world as he does, it's impossible not to fall in love. Or something deeper than love - closer to religious gratitude - is the sentiment you may experience in the finale that concludes the first act of the marvelous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Sunday in the Park With George,' which opened on Thursday night at the newly restored Hudson Theater.
Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in Sunday in the Park With George
9 / 10
Sunday in the Park with George, which opens tonight in a bare-bones but beautiful-enough Broadway revival starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, is both a deconstruction and an example of that duality. A deconstruction because Lapine's book, among the brainiest ever written for a musical, works innumerable trenchant variations on the theme of sacrifice for art. The show is also a demonstration of that theme, because Sondheim's songs are so profound that they feel, even while unspooling in unbroken threads of human longing, as if they had left the realm of lived experience and entered a Keatsian plane of absolute truth-beauty far above our own. The lyrics constantly delight the ear while also dramatizing, in that very delight, the way art both exalts and erases. 'Rapturous' and 'capture us' are like the jaws of a trap snapping shut.
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Sunday in the Park with George FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
No Life
Color and Light
Gossip
The Day Off
Everybody Loves Louis
Finishing the Hat
We Do Not Belong Together
Beautiful
Sunday
It's Hot Up Here
Chromolume #7
Putting It Together
Children and Art
Lesson #8
Move On
Yoo-Hoo!
The One on the Left
Soldiers and Girls
Performance Art Piece
Gotta Keep 'Em Humming
Sunday In The Park With George
No Life
Color And Light
Gossip
The Day Off
Everybody Loves Louis
Finishing The Hat
We Do Not Belong Together
Beautiful
Sunday
It's Hot Up Here
Chromolume #7
Putting It Together
Children And Art
Lesson #8
Move On
Sunday in the Park with George History
Other Productions of Sunday in the Park with George
| 1983 | Off-Broadway |
Playwrights Horizons Workshop Off-Broadway |
| 1984 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 1986 | Regional (US) |
Long Beach Revival Regional (US) |
| 1990 | West End |
London Revival West End |
| 1994 | Broadway |
Reunion Concert Broadway |
| 1997 | Regional (US) |
Regional Revival Regional (US) |
| 2002 | Regional (US) |
Sondheim Festival Production Regional (US) |
| 2004 | Regional (US) |
Regional Concert Regional (US) |
| 2005 | London Fringe |
London Revival London Fringe |
| 2006 | West End |
West End Transfer West End |
| 2007 | Los Angeles |
Reprise! Concert Los Angeles |
| 2008 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
| 2014 | Arlington, VA (Regional) |
Signature Theatre Production Arlington, VA (Regional) |
| 2016 | New York |
New York City Center Concert Gala New York |
| 2017 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2020 | London |
2020 West End Revival London |
| 2027 | West End |
West End |
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