Putting it together : how Stephen Sondheim and I created "Sunday in the park with George" / James Lapine.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374200091
- 0374200092
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A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with George
Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George . In 1982, James 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 .
Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, and with a treasure trove of personal photographs, sketches, script notes, and sheet music, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friend - ship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
Dramatis personae -- From Ohio to Sondheim -- Stephen Sondheim -- Sondheim goes off-Broadway -- Lapine goes Broadway -- The Booth Theater -- Finale.
"A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George"-- Provided by publisher.