Georges Seurat - Sunday in the Park With George

“Sunday” opens with a blank page, a blank canvas and Robert St. Laurence ’11 as Georges.


In his studio, Georges Seurat (Robert St. Laurence ’11) tunefully puts together millions of dots to create “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Le Grand Jatte.”


Georges (Robert St. Laurence '11) sketches passers-by in his park on an island in the Seine.


Beelden uit de musical "Sunday in the Park With George" van Stephen Sondheim, uitgevoerd door Brandeis’ M.F.A. acting company in 2011.

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Originally produced in 1984 with Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in the leads, the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical is regarded by some as Sondheim’s finest work, and the Brandeis revival would coincide with the composer’s landmark 80th birthday. More important, “Sunday in the Park With George” is a musical about the making and the meaning of art.

In the first act, composer-lyricist Sondheim and playwright James Lapine created a fictional treatment of the life and career of pointillist painting pioneer Georges Seurat (1859–1891), chronicling the creation in the mid-1880s of his masterpiece “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” and dramatizing the difficult choices a creative person makes in order to pursue a life in art. The second act jumps the audience 100 years forward in time, focusing on Seurat’s imagined great-grandson, also an artist named George, as he struggles to balance his creative aspirations both with his personal life and with marketing, contact-making and other pragmatic compromises needed to successfully conduct the business of art.
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