Sunday in the Park With George (2006 London Revival Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Opening (Daniel Evans & Jenna Russell)
- Sunday in the Park With George (Jenna Russell & Daniel Evans)
- "They are out early today." (Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans, Gay Soper & Joanne Redman)
- No Life (Simon Green & Liza Sadovy)
- Color and Light (Jenna Russell & Daniel Evans)
- Gossip (Simon Green, Liza Sadovy, Alasdair Harvey, Sarah French-Ellis, Kaisa Hammarlund, Gay Soper, Joanne Redman, Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans & Ian McLarnon)
- The Day Off (Daniel Evans, Gay Soper, Joanne Redman, Steven Kynman, Anna Lowe, Simon Green & Alasdair Harvey)
- Everybody Loves Louis (Jenna Russell)
- The One on the Left (Daniel Evans, Christopher Colley, Sarah French-Ellis & Kaisa Hammarlund)
- Finishing the Hat (Daniel Evans)
- We Do Not Belong Together (Daniel Evans & Jenna Russell)
- Beautiful (Gay Soper & Daniel Evans)
- Chaos (Company)
- Sunday (Daniel Evans & Company)
- It's Hot Up Here (Company)
- Chromolume #7 (Daniel Evans & Jenna Russell)
- Putting It Together (Daniel Evans & Company)
- Children and Art (Jenna Russell & Daniel Evans)
- Lesson #8 (Alasdair Harvey, Daniel Evans & Jenna Russell)
- Move On (Jenna Russell & Daniel Evans)
- "George. Is that you?" (Gay Soper & Daniel Evans)
- Sunday Finale (Daniel Evans, Jenna Russell & Company)
- bonus track: The One on the Left, complete version (Christopher Colley, Sarah French-Ellis & Kaisa Hammarlund)
Free Music Notes for Sunday in the Park With George (2006 London Revival Cast)
Free Music Review: Intimate, shimmering and gorgeous
Hit: 5 Stars
I won't do too much comparisons to the original cast, because it's been done and done. This recording stands alone and strong, the performances are wonderful; intense and filled with life. I adore the voices and, technically speaking, the voices here are much stronger than the original cast. (with a few exceptions of course, and this is all subject to opinion.)
The orchestral reductions are just fine and allow the voices to truly move to the forefront. Everything is so clear and precise and having the extra dialogue illuminates the whole even more. Stunning.
What really strikes me is just how amazing this show sounds in this reduced format. It allows the show to shine and expand in unexpected ways, much like the brilliant new recording/production of Company. The same cannot be said for the new recording of Sweeney Todd, which feels almost castrated as a result. It's about as lifeless as one of Sweeney's victims, depite the amazing cast. It is unfair for them to be so stifled.
Thankfully, the actors here on Sunday are given more sonic space to expand and get their messages across.
The only thing that would make this new version better would be for it to get a live video release, which is par for the course with Sondheim.
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One of Stephen Sondheim's most beautiful and most misunderstood scores, Sunday in the Park with George received a rare revival, and an even rarer recording with this 2006 London cast recording, which originated as a late-2005 production by the Menier Chocolate Factory just south of London. Both a fictional representation of French Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and an examination of the process of artistic creation, Sunday was for years the only Sondheim show available in only one recording. And why not, considering the original Broadway cast helped Sondheim and James Lapine develop the show in workshop, and the fact that it was recorded on video only enforced its permanence. And its leads, Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, both nominated for Tonys, have long had an affinity for Sondheim's music. The 2006 London revival, however, holds up to the challenge extremely well, with stars Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell and the rest of the ensemble capturing the beauty, intricacy, and humor of Sondheim's music. Evans and Russell fall a bit short in certain dramatic and comedic moments, and their accents are a bit distracting when portraying the French and American characters. But even if the original Broadway cast will always be definitive, this is an excellent recording that only enforces our appreciation of the show. The 89-minute, two-disc set also benefits from having more music than the OBC (though not, of course, the DVD), including a bonus track: a longer version of "The One on the Left," with the two soldiers and the two Celestes. PS Classics presents their usual first-class production, with an essay, synopsis, and complete libretto. --David HoriuchiStephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, in its most complete recording. This new album features the 2006 London cast, headed by Olivier Award-winner Daniel Evans and 2006 Olivier Award-nominee Jenna Russell. Audiences and critics have been unanimous in their praise of this production, which recreates the world of Seurat's masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte with the use of ground-breaking projection and animation technology. The Sunday Times called it "a brilliant production of Sondheim's best musical: beautifully acted, moving, funny, glamorous, and intelligent." Now this legendary score and acclaimed production have been preserved in a comprehensive two-disc set.
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