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Putting it together, how Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in the park with George, James Lapine

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Putting it together, how Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in the park with George, James Lapine

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eng

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non fiction

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Putting it together

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James Lapine

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how Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in the park with George

Summary

In 1982 Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat's nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Here Lapine chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George, accompanied by a treasure trove of personal photographs, sketches, script notes, and sheet music. The result is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friendship, and the highs and lows of a journey that resulted in a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Dramatis personae -- From Ohio to Sondheim -- Stephen Sondheim -- Sondheim goes off-Broadway -- Lapine goes Broadway -- The Booth Theater -- Finale

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How Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in the park with George

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