Sunday in the Park with George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Notes for Sunday in the Park with George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Sunday
Hit: 4 Stars
Bernadette Peters is amazing as Dot and Marie. Mandy Patinkin is great, but I liked his performance in Evita better. How La Cage Aux Folles beat out Sunday in the Park With George is beyond me, but rest assured this is a magnificent work of art. Like the painting.Free Music Review: An old favorite
Hit: 5 Stars
After seeing a few revivals of this musical in the 2000-2002, inclduing the Kennedy Center show, I felt compelled to pull out the original again for a listen. It was once a favorite, and yet in recent years has taken a back seat for me to other new cast recordings. However, I now once agian have it out to be played often... what wonderful performances by the origainl cast. And the entire cast, in my opion, has not been euqulaeed since 1986. Bernedette Peters I feel was at her finest in this role, her unique voice enhancing the songs (in some other shows or CD's I feel her style can detract from a song). Ditto for Mandy... his George is excellent, but his "Wild Party" performace, both on the CD and in person, detracted from the songs. This 1986 cast may represnet the very best version of "Sunday..." that we will ever see or hear.Free Music Review: Still the best!
Hit: 4 Stars
I first saw the video of SITPWG, and I must say I was a little disappointed when I got the CD: the voices are sometimes behind the music, the sound changes, and most of all I found that several songs were "rushed" (Sunday in the park..., Everybody loves Louis). But even though, it still gives me shivers everytime I put in on the player. The music is gorgeous anyway. Just buy the video as well as the CD :-) !Free Music Review: One of the greatest cast albums ever made
Hit: 5 Stars
It is no surprise that more than one CLASSICAL music listing has included SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE as a basic requirement for building a classical library, along with Beethoven and Mozart and Bach and their ilk. Thomas Shepard's ingenious decision to create a free-standing, almost cantata-like soundscape and programming for this watershed score stands as one of the best smartest decisions in a career full of them. The various reviewers who are unfavorably comparing this to the video or the show are missing the point: the CD is its own animal, and from the almost palpable pool of silence from whence Mandy Patinkin's first "White. A blank page or canvas" emerges to the beautifully piano final chord, the tension is all but unbroken. Both Mr. Patinkin and the incomparable Bernadette Peters richly deserved the Tony Awards that went to George Hearn and Chita Rivera, and the supporting cast is divine. This show, along with FOLLIES and SWEENEY TODD, is a world-class masterwork bearing comparison with the greatest works of art the lyric stage has ever known. A must-have CD, and one that only gets richer with each hearing.Free Music Review: One of Sondheim's Bests (aren't all his works his best?)
Hit: 5 Stars
It doesn't get any better than this.How amazing does a man have to be to create a musical about an artist that accurately represents what creating art is like AND how the artist interacted with others AND manages to recreate that artist's style musically?
Well, Sondheim has done all of this, and created masterpiece (did I mention that the music and lyrics themselves are amazing?) This score reaches toward perfection and gets as close to it as humanly possible. As with all of Sondheim's music, it takes several listens to truly get the feel for it, and following long with the lyrics in the liner notes to completely appreciate it. Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin are both wonderful in the leading roles, and really act and sing the parts perfectly. The songs are some of Sondheim's most beautiful, including "Sunday," "Move On," and "Finishing the Hat." "Putting it Together" is an amazing song about the work it takes to get your art out there in the world.
For all those who love the score, buying the videotaped Broadway show is the next logical step. While not as perfect as the music, it is well worth the money for anyone who enjoys the songs.