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
Broadway Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Sunday in the Park With George’
9 / 10
A concert staging at City Center last fall of Stephen Sondheim's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical 'Sunday in the Park With George' went swimmingly, with Jake Gyllenhaal in the titular role of Georges Seurat, raising hopes for an extended engagement. The theater gods heard, and the re-mounted show is back for a commercial run in one of Broadway's historic jewels, the newly restored Hudson Theater. Under the direction of Sarna Lapine, the staging is more theatrically structured than it was at City Center, with its stools and lecterns. But even as retooled, the show retains the quality of serene simplicity that heightens the poignant beauty of the score. Gyllenhaal returns in the leading role, his acting chops intact, but his voice refreshed and enhanced by what must have been professional coaching.
THEATER Sunday in the Park With George: EW stage review
9 / 10
But one need not know Seurat to enjoy this enchanting production. Jake Gyllenhaal, bearded and intense with a rich singing voice, makes the character understood immediately: He is an artist blinded to life's joys by his own work ethic, even as he spends his days observing other people at their leisure. (George is not a total prig, however, and Gyllenhaal lets loose with some silly business singing the voices of two dogs in the painting.) By contrast, the pointillist's model and lover, the aptly named Dot, played with an endearing blend of comic sparkle and pathos by Annaleigh Ashford, wants the simple pleasures of going to the Follies and eating cream puffs. But she cannot pull George from his studio, and - practical girl that she is - may take up with the baker who keeps her in dough.
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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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