Sunday In The Park With George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- 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
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Free Music Review: Complex, Memorable and Moving.
Hit: 5 Stars
Sunday in the Park with George is one of Sondheim's top 3 shows, and the score one of the greatest written of all time. A great quality of the show, definitively preserved by the OBC album, is its value of repeat viewing.
Initially, "Children and Art", "Move On", "We Do Not Belong Together" and in parts the title song are among the most memorable numbers with Bernadette Peters' heart wrenching vibrato and Sondheim's melodies. Even Mandy Patinkin whose falsetto can be hard for some to swallow has his moments in "Beautiful" and "Lesson #8". And of course, who could forget "Sunday" with its choral brilliance. There are so many memorable songs, in fact, that it's hard for me not to just list them all.
It is important to have seen the show as the sheer complexity of the score can not be understood without acknowledging Sondheim's intricate attention in linking his musical ideas to the characters within the show. "Color and Light" is an easy example of this; the staccato representative of George Seurat's use of 'dots' to revolutionize the way his art is constructed and viewed; "Gossip" is an underrated example of Sondheim's ability to link music with characters (featuring one of my favourite lines in the show sung by William Parry) and also provides a bit of contrast to Sunday's other melodic numbers. Some of Sondheim's work is so subtle I wonder if he believes it works unconsciously. (I recommend "Sondheim's Broadway Musicals" by Stephen Banfield to pick up on all the details).
Although slightly shorter and of less quality than the Menier Chocolate Factory revival recording, the superior orchestrations and irreplaceable cast of the 1984 recording make it a better purchase in my opinion - although I feel 'Sunday' is just one of those shows, along with "Into the Woods" and "Pacific Overtures" that just can't work as well without their respective original casts who define the show.
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After Merrily We Roll Along's devastating flop in 1981, Stephen Sondheim thought about abandoning the theater. He wrote one of his most beloved shows instead, Sunday in the Park with George. Sondheim and his new collaborator, librettist/director James Lapine, used George Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" as a way to tackle the issue of artistic creation itself. Both Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters play two different parts with brio, jumping across decades with ease, and they get to deliver some of Sondheim's most heartwrenching songs--"Color and Light," "Finishing the Hat," "Putting It Together," and "Children and Art." Sunday in the Park with George is one of the most intellectually ambitious musicals to ever hit Broadway--and one of the most emotionally rewarding. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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