Signed deluxe glossy illustrated program from the first London production of Sunday in the Park with George which opened at the Royal National Theatre on March 15, 1990, and ran for 117 performances, with Philip Quast as George and Maria Friedman as Dot. The production was nominated for six Laurence Olivier Awards, beating Into the Woods, another collaboration between Lapine and Sondheim, to win Best New Musical (1991). Quast won the award for Best Actor in a Musical. The color program has been boldly signed in ink on the front cover, "Stephen Sondheim." 50 pp. 6.5 x 9.5 inches; 16.5 x 24 cm. Very fine.
The 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884–1886). The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984.
Signed deluxe glossy illustrated program from the first London production of Sunday in the Park with George which opened at the Royal National Theatre on March 15, 1990, and ran for 117 performances, with Philip Quast as George and Maria Friedman as Dot. The production was nominated for six Laurence Olivier Awards, beating Into the Woods, another collaboration between Lapine and Sondheim, to win Best New Musical (1991). Quast won the award for Best Actor in a Musical. The color program has been boldly signed in ink on the front cover, "Stephen Sondheim." 50 pp. 6.5 x 9.5 inches; 16.5 x 24 cm. Very fine.
The 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884–1886). The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984.