Sunday in the Park with George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Stephen SondheimConductor: Paul Gemignani
Performer: Bernadette Peters
Performer: Mandy Patinkin
Performer: Barbara Byrne
Performer: Dana Ivey
Performer: Danielle Ferland
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. Sunday in the Park with George
- Act 1. No Life
- Act 1. Color And Light
- Act 1. Gossip
- Act 1. The Day Off
- Act 1. Everybody Loves Louis
- Act 1. Finishing The Hat
- Act 1. We Do Not Belong Together
- Act 1. Beautiful
- Act 1. Sunday
- Act 2. It's Hot Up Here
- Act 2. Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together
- Act 2. Children And Art
- Act 2. Lesson #8
- Act 2. Move On
- Act 2. Sunday
- Putting It Together [*]
- Sunday [*]
Music reviews of Sunday in the Park with George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Great Score...Middling Show
Rating: 4 Stars
This remastered edition of the OBC of "Sunday in the Park with George" is pristine and sonically beautiful. It captures a rapturous performance by Bernadette Peters, some of Steven Sondheim's finest moments and the usual from Mandy Patinkin: gorgeous renditions of some plaintive songs mixed with over-the-top, gimmicky hijinx that tax the listener and overwhelm the material. "Sunday..." has always been a puzzlement. Despite some weak songs in the first act ("Gossip", "No Light", "The Day Off") it still has resonence and soaring melodic and comedic moments. "Everybody Loves Louis" is a highlight for Peters and she shows off her comedic elan to its best effect. She also injects "We Do Not Belong Together" with a searing intensity that communicates both her wrath and deep hurt at the loss of George. "Finishing the Hat" is Patinkin's moment to shine. No one has ever performed the piece better and it is one of Sondheim's greatest achievements as well as Patinkin's. All of this leads to a moment of musical theater history, the soaring denoument to Act I, "Sunday". This song builds in beauty and surging power to a climax that is emotionally overwhelming and deservedly so.
Act II has always been castigated for being either unnecessary or disjointed. It is true that the book rather clumsily tries to connect the past and the present, but Sondheim still comes up with some classics. "It's Hot Up Here" is an odd comical number that works on its premise: characters in Seurat's painting sing a litany of complaints about being immortalized in a painting. The conceit works perfectly. "Putting It Together" has rightly become a standard because it nails the dichotomy of art and commerce in precise, hilarious asides. The "Chromolume #7" section is dated and belabored, but what follows is a series of songs that build upon character and theme quite efficiently. Peters' gentle "Children and Art" is a wise lullaby that she performs exquisitely, and Patinkin's "Lesson #8" is the breakthrough his character needs. His subdued rendition is sincere, underplayed and quite welcome. Both performers collaborate beautifully together in the joyous "Move On", which also provides the listener with the emotional release needed to make the piece come together. Finally, The reprise of "Sunday" is more mournful and pensive than when first heard, a precise and moving end to a problematic musical.
Peters manages to assert herself here as a Broadway force to be reckoned with, as she would repeatedly prove to be in the years to come. Unfortunately, Patinkin also manages to assert himself as one of the most eccentric and inconsistent Broadway performers around. His "The Day Off", in which he portrays and imitates a dog, is an ordeal to listen to. On other occassions, his dour, one-note portrayal makes George seem like an insufferable narcissist. Maybe that was the authors' intent, but it sure doesn't make for an entertaining listen.
"Sunday in the Park..." is worth the time of anyone interested in musical theater, and the CD does not suffer from the scripting lapses that plagued the show. If only someone could have given Patinkin a sedative or two he might have grated less and relied more on his talent than his show-offmanship.
Description of Sunday in the Park with George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
A Classic Stephen Sondheim Musical Available Now at a New Low Price!Features bonus tracks, digitally remastered and new liner notes.
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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