"It was directed by Stuart Maunder and conducted by Phoebe Briggs. 11 members from the Orchestra Victoria performed the score with Michael Starobin's original orchestrations. Audience members were required to wear 3-D glasses to view the Chromolume in Act 2. The show was performed in a four-performance concert version as part of New York City Center's 2016 Gala on October 24–26, 2016. Jake Gyllenhaal starred as George opposite Annaleigh Ashford as Dot/Marie. The museum guests of act II are played by the same actors who appear as the park-goers in act I. Traditionally, Dot and Marie and Georges Seurat and"
"for the large painting including a smaller version, ""Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"" (1884–1885), now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. The painting was the inspiration for James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's musical, ""Sunday in the Park with George"". Seurat concealed his relationship with Madeleine Knobloch (or Madeleine Knoblock, 1868–1903), an artist's model whom he portrayed in his painting ""Jeune femme se poudrant"". In 1889 she moved in with Seurat in his studio on the 7th floor of 128bis Boulevard de Clichy. When Madeleine became pregnant,"
"Frank Verlizzo Frank ""Fraver"" Verlizzo is an American design artist and Drama Desk Award-winner. He is best known for creating the posters for many prominent Broadway productions, including the original productions of Stephen Sondheim's """" and ""Sunday in the Park with George"". Fraver is a native New Yorker, born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. He attended the High School of Art and Design and the Pratt Institute. It was at Pratt that he received his first big break in the theater industry, as his illustration teacher was David Edward Byrd, the man who designed the poster art for"
"the original productions of the musicals ""Follies"" and ""Godspell"". Byrd, seeing that Fraver's work largely centered on movies, suggested he visit The Blaine Thompson Agency, at the time the largest advertising agency for Broadway shows. Fraver recently created Fraver.com, an educational website devoted to preserving his projects and the stories behind them. Frank Verlizzo Frank ""Fraver"" Verlizzo is an American design artist and Drama Desk Award-winner. He is best known for creating the posters for many prominent Broadway productions, including the original productions of Stephen Sondheim's """" and ""Sunday in the Park with George"". Fraver is a native New Yorker,"
"found inspiration in unlikely sources: the opening of Japan to Western trade for ""Pacific Overtures"" (1976), a legendary murderous barber seeking revenge in the Industrial Age of London for ""Sweeney Todd"" (1979), the paintings of Georges Seurat for ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1984), fairy tales for ""Into the Woods"" (1987), and a collection of presidential assassins in ""Assassins"" (1990). While some critics have argued that some of Sondheim's musicals lack commercial appeal, others have praised their lyrical sophistication and musical complexity, as well as the interplay of lyrics and music in his shows. Some of Sondheim's notable innovations"
"for the 1984 Broadway musical ""Sunday in the Park with George"" by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Subsequently, the painting is sometimes referred to by the misnomer """"Sunday in the Park"""". The painting is prominently featured in the 1986 comedy film ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off"". Such use is parodied, among others, in """", ""Family Guy"", and ""Muppet Babies"". In the ""Simpsons"" episode ""Mom and Pop Art"" (10x19), Barney Gumble offers to pay for a beer with a handmade reproduction of the painting. In Topiary Park (formerly Old Deaf School Park) in Columbus, Ohio, sculptor James T. Mason re-created the painting"
"Ramey, Jerry Hadley, Dom DeLuise, Ruth Ann Swenson and Julia Migenes; and ""The Green Album"", among others. Thomas Z. Shepard Thomas Z. Shepard is a prolific record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim. Shepard is also a composer, conductor, music arranger and pianist. He has won twelve Grammy Awards and produced the original cast recordings of many of the Sondheim musicals, including ""Sweeney Todd"", ""Company"" and ""Sunday in the Park with George"", among others. He also produced the original cast recordings of ""1776"", ""La Cage aux Folles"" and ""42nd"
"to the audience about being sorry and could I start again."" Quast's performance has been commonly argued to be the definitive interpretation of Javert, spawning many similar versions among stage actors afterwards. Quast's stage success continued as he won the coveted role of Georges Seurat in the original London production of Stephen Sondheim's ""Sunday in the Park with George"" for the Royal National Theatre. In 1991 he won his first Laurence Olivier Award for Georges Seurat. Quast was under a large amount of stress when preparing for ""Sunday in the Park with George"", as he struggled to master Sondheim's complicated"
"Thomas Z. Shepard Thomas Z. Shepard is a prolific record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim. Shepard is also a composer, conductor, music arranger and pianist. He has won twelve Grammy Awards and produced the original cast recordings of many of the Sondheim musicals, including ""Sweeney Todd"", ""Company"" and ""Sunday in the Park with George"", among others. He also produced the original cast recordings of ""1776"", ""La Cage aux Folles"" and ""42nd Street"", among over a hundred others. He has produced hundreds of classical music and popular music recordings."
"3-week run, closing on the 1st February 2014. The revue received its Irish premiere in December 2015 at Lyric Theatre, Belfast with Fra Fee, Carol Starks, Nicholas Pound, Christina Tedders, and Brad Clapson, directed by Stephen Whitson, and musical supervision by Alex Parker. Act I Act II Act I Act II Putting It Together Putting it Together is a musical revue showcasing the songs of Stephen Sondheim. Drawing its title from a song in ""Sunday in the Park with George"", it was devised by Sondheim and Julia McKenzie. The revue has received several productions, beginning with its premiere in England"
"as ""the painting of the garden with sweethearts."" The title at the Van Gogh Museum is ""Garden with courting couples: Square Saint-Pierre, 1887"". The summer park scene, one of his largest canvases, was one of the first paintings that van Gogh exhibited in Paris. Here he integrated what he had learned of Impressionism and Pointillism into his own version of Pointillism. He used a combination of carefully placed small dots and more expressive dashes, like those in the sky, of varying color placed side by side into what is considered his most pointillistic painting. Van Gogh used Divisionism techniques to"
"Factory production of the Stephen Sondheim musical ""Sunday in the Park with George"" won five Olivier Awards, including Best Actor in a Musical for Daniel Evans and Best Actress in a Musical for Jenna Russell. The pair went on to perform the lead roles when the production transferred to Studio 54 on Broadway in February 2008. In the 2009 Olivier Awards, Douglas Hodge won the trophy for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of drag queen Zaza in ""La Cage aux Folles"". The production also won the Best Musical Revival category. In 2010, the Chocolate Factory productions of"
"Ingram's songs have ""became bigger and more epic, more Broadway and more cinematic over time"" with Hasbro blessing the effort to try ""something groundbreaking for daytime television"", according to Ingram. Lyrics and overall musical themes may be suggested by the writers; two examples include songs written by Amy Keating Rogers, who is a self-professed Stephen Sondheim fan. The song ""The Art of the Dress"" in the first-season episode ""Suited for Success"" is inspired by ""Putting it Together"" from the musical ""Sunday in the Park with George"", while the season one finale's song, ""At The Gala"", is based on Sondheim's ""Into"
"(1822), which he painted for St. Etienne's Cathedral in Metz. ""Crucifixion"" now hangs in the Louvre. The young Théodore Géricault had painted copies of work by Prud'hon, whose ""thunderously tragic pictures"" include his masterpiece, ""Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime"", where oppressive darkness and the compositional base of a naked, sprawled corpse obviously anticipate Géricault's painting ""The Raft of the Medusa"". Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (April 4, 1758 – February 16, 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as ""Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons"". In particular, he painted"
"of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1984) which contains the song from which the title of the book is taken. While the book is not an autobiography, and much of it deals with Sondheim's lyrical technique (such as the use of perfect rhyme, proper stressing of syllables, avoiding redundancy), the comments and anecdotes mentioned in the subtitle often deal with his relationships with his collaborators, including Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, George Furth, James Lapine and Leonard Bernstein, and with events important to the history of American musical theatre. Additionally Sondheim offers sidebar critiques of some of"
"they decided to work on a musical together, which became ""Sunday in the Park With George"", with Lapine writing the book and directing with Sondheim's music and lyrics. It was first produced Off-Broadway in 1983 and then transferred to Broadway in 1984. The pair's next musical was ""Into the Woods"", which premiered on Broadway in 1987. Lapine won both the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical. They then collaborated on the musical ""Passion"", for which Lapine wrote the book and directed. The musical ran on Broadway in 1994 and in the West End"
"six musicals by Stephen Sondheim, within one season, under one roof: """", ""Company"", ""A Little Night Music"", ""Sunday in the Park with George"", ""Merrily We Roll Along"", and ""Passion"". Critical response to the Sondheim Celebration was extraordinary, Two other theatrical achievements were a retrospective of Tennessee Williams' work and a highly acclaimed celebration of the ten plays of August Wilson presented in sequential order. Having set the bar high, Kaiser continued to upgrade the Kennedy Center's artistic profile, negotiating long-term agreements with the Mariinsky Opera and the Mariinsky Ballet, the Royal Shakespeare Company, New York City Ballet, and the Bolshoi"
"Gabriel Ebert, Sara Stiles, Michael Cerveris and Jennifer Simard. The working title was reported to be ""Buñuel"" by the New York Post and other outlets, but Sondheim later clarified that this was an error and that they still had no title. As of August 2018, no dates regarding the musical had been announced. The Kennedy Center held a Sondheim Celebration, running from May to August 2002, consisting of six of Sondheim's musicals: ""Sweeney Todd"", ""Company"", ""Sunday in the Park With George"", ""Merrily We Roll Along"", ""Passion"" and ""A Little Night Music"". On April 28, 2002, in connection with the Sondheim"
"in 1919 when Marie Henry sold it at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris as part of her collected works from the Le Pouldu period. American banker Chester Dale acquired the painting in 1928, gifting it upon his death in 1962 to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist and figure in the Symbolist movement known for his contributions to the Synthetist style. In 1886, he spent the summer in Pont-Aven in Brittany, an artists colony that became known as the Pont-Aven School for Gauguin's influence and the work they produced. In"
"Sam Buntrock Sam Buntrock (born 19 September 1975) is an English stage director. Buntrock studied Drama at University of Bristol. Buntrock directed the first West End revival of the musical ""Sunday In The Park With George"". The production ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, England from 18 November 2005 - 12 March 2006, before transferring to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, running 23 May 2006 - 2 September 2006. Buntrock received critical acclaim, and an Olivier Award nomination for this production. He made his Broadway debut directing the first revival of the show, for which he received Tony"
"The two are wearing classical garb, and are seemingly enthralled by each-other, described by one source as ""drunken with first love"". Springtime (Pierre Auguste Cot) Springtime is a mid-19th century painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ""Springtime"" was painted by Cot in 1873. The painting was first exhibited at the 1873 Paris salon, where it was well received; the work would go on to become Cot's most successful work of art, and was often copied in other mediums. In terms of"
"The painting inspired Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's ""Liberty Enlightening the World"", known as the Statue of Liberty in New York City, which was given to the United States as a gift from the French a half-century after ""Liberty Leading the People"" was painted. The statue, which holds a torch in its hand, takes a more stable, immovable stance than that of the woman in the painting. An engraved version of part of the painting, along with a depiction of Delacroix, was featured on the 100 franc note from 1978 to 1995. The painting has had an influence on classical music. George"
"Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of ""The New York Times"" as ""now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater"". His best-known works as composer and"
"Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of ""The New York Times"" as ""now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater"". His best-known works as composer and"
"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte () painted in 1884, is Georges Seurat's most famous work. It is a leading example of pointillist technique, executed on a large canvas. Seurat's composition includes a number of Parisians at a park on the banks of the River Seine. In 1879 Georges Seurat enlisted as a soldier in the French army and was back home by 1880. Later, he ran a small painter’s studio in Paris, and in 1883 showed his work publicly for the first time. The following"
"276, 140. ""Bathers at Asnières"" by Georges-Pierre Seurat depicts a scene of 19th century leisure and developing industry in this suburb of Paris. In 1885 Seurat made ""Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte"" used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called ""Pointillism"". Vincent van Gogh made a series of paintings of Asnières. Influenced by Impressionism and Pointillism, van Gogh modified his traditional style and used vivid color, shorter brushstrokes and perspective to engage the viewer. His views of the banks of the Seine are an important progression for his later"
"Joseph-Marie Vien, and 19th century and beginning of the 20th century paintings by Camille Corot, Paul Baudry, Eugène Isabey, Paul Delaroche, Léon Bonnat. Vic-sur-Seille Vic-sur-Seille () is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It was the birthplace of Georges de La Tour. The art museum of Vic-sur-Seille, in French ""Musée départemental Georges-de-La-Tour"", was created in 1996. Its most famous work is ""Saint John the Baptist in the desert"", by Georges de La Tour. Its collections include 17th century paintings by Jacques de Létin, Jacques Blanchard, Cesare Dandini, Domenichino, Meiffren Conte, Charles Le Brun, Matthieu"
"Putting It Together Putting it Together is a musical revue showcasing the songs of Stephen Sondheim. Drawing its title from a song in ""Sunday in the Park with George"", it was devised by Sondheim and Julia McKenzie. The revue has received several productions, beginning with its premiere in England in 1992, Broadway in 1999 and the West End in 2014. The revue came about due to many requests for an update to ""Side by Side by Sondheim"" (1976). Having resisted a new show, he was finally convinced by producer Cameron Mackintosh, and Julia McKenzie was brought in to assist. ""Putting"
"""First Lady Suite"". In May, 2006, PS Classics released their first London cast album, the London revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. PS Classics has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, for the cast albums of ""Company"", ""Grey Gardens"", ""Assassins"" and ""Nine"". In an unprecedented move, it recorded ""Grey Gardens"" twice, replacing the off-Broadway recording with a complete Broadway recording. The latter recording was Grammy nominated. Having a long-standing association with Stephen Sondheim, the label has released seven albums of work by the composer. They also have long-standing relationships with composers Maury Yeston and Ricky Ian"
"paintings taken were ""Le pigeon aux petits pois"" (""The Pigeon with the Peas"") by Pablo Picasso, ""La Pastorale"" by Henri Matisse, ""L'Olivier Près de l'Estaque"" (""Olive Tree near Estaque"") by Georges Braque, """" (""Woman with a Fan"") by Amedeo Modigliani and ""Nature Morte aux Chandeliers"" (""Still Life with Chandeliers"") by Fernand Léger and were valued at ( ). A window had been smashed and CCTV footage showed a masked man taking the paintings. Authorities believe the thief acted alone. The man carefully removed the paintings from their frames, which he left behind. Georges Braque Georges Braque (; ; 13 May"
"so that students can unlock their traditional subjects through the arts. George Rodrigue George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 – December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called ""loup-garou"", catapulted him to worldwide fame. His funeral mass was open to"
"master's degree from Denver’s National Theatre Conservatory. He made his Broadway debut in the 1983 revival of ""Zorba"" as Nikos, for which he won the Theatre World Award. He took over the role of George in Stephen Sondheim's ""Sunday in the Park with George"" in September 1984, and played opposite Bernadette Peters. He received a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award for his performance as Cinderella's Prince and the Wolf in Sondheim's ""Into the Woods"" (1987). It was during this show where he met his wife, Kim Crosby, who played Cinderella. He starred with Mandy Patinkin, Daisy"
"Ateneum!"" was created by Brett Bigham to help people with autism visit the museum. The collections of Ateneum include extensively Finnish art all the way from 18th-century rococo portraiture to the experimental art movements of the 20th century. The collections also include some 650 international works of art. One of them is Vincent van Gogh's ""Street in Auvers-sur-Oise"" (1890): when the painting was deposited in 1903 Ateneum became the first museum in the world to own a Vincent van Gogh. Other notable works include Albert Edelfelt’s ""The Luxembourg Garden"" (1887), Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s ""Aino Triptych"" (1891), Eero Järnefelt’s ""Under the Yoke"