LOUISE, CELESTE #1, CELESTE #2
“Everybody Loves Louis” DOT
“Soldiers and Girls” SOLDIER, CELESTE #1, CELESTE #2
“Finishing the Hat” GEORGE
“Beautiful” OLD LADY, GEORGE
“Sunday” COMPANY
ACT II
“It’s Hot Up Here” DOT, CLARISSE, LOUISE, FRANZ, NURSE,
CELESTE #1, CELESTE #2, BETTE, JULES,
SOLDIER, OLD LADY, BOATMAN
Performance Art Piece GEORGE, JED, DEE,
ALEX, ANNETTE, NAOMI
“Have to Keep Them Humming” HARRIET, BILLIE, BLACKMUN,
GREEN, NAOMI, ALEX, JED,
LINDA, ALAN, GEORGE
“Sunday” (reprise) COMPANY
Sunday in the Park with George was presented by The Shubert Organization and Emanuel Azenberg, by arrangement with Playwrights Horizons, at the Booth Theatre, New York City, on May 2, 1984, with the following cast:
(In order of appearance)
ACT I
GEORGE, an artist Mandy Patinkin
DOT, his mistress Bernadette Peters
AN OLD LADY Barbara Bryne
HER NURSE Judith Moore
FRANZ, a servant Brent Spiner
A BOY bathing in the river Danielle Ferland
A YOUNG MAN sitting on the bank Nancy Opel
A MAN lying on the bank Cris Groenendaal
JULES, another artist Charles Kimbrough
YVONNE, his wife Dana Ivey
A BATMAN William Parry
CELESTE #1 Melanie Vaughan
CELESTE #2 Mary D’Arcy
LOUISE, the daughter of Jules and Yvonne Danielle Ferland
FRIEDA, a cook Nancy Opel
LOUIS, a baker Cris Groenendaal
A SOLDIER Robert Westenberg
A MAN with bicycle John Jellison
A LITTLE GIRL Michele Rigan
A WOMAN with baby carriage Sue Anne Gershenson
MR. Kurt Knudson
MRS. Judith Moore
ACT II
GEORGE, an artist Mandy Patinkin
MARIE, his grandmother Bernadette Peters
DENNIS, a technician Brent Spiner
BOB GREENBERG, the museum director Charles Kimbrough
NAOMI EISEN, a composer Dana Ivey
HARRIET PAWLING, a patron of the arts Judith Moore
BILLY WEBSTER, her friend Cris Groenendaal
A PHOTOGRAPHER Sue Anne Gershenson
A MUSEUM ASSISTANT John Jellison
CHARLES REDMOND, a visiting curator William Parry
ALEX, an artist Robert Westenberg
BETTY, an artist Nancy Opel
LEE RANDOLPH, the museum’s publicist Kurt Knudson
BLAIR DANIELS, an art critic Barbara Bryne
A WAITRESS Melanie Vaughan
ELAINE Mary D’Arcy
Directed by James Lapine
Scenery by Tony Straiges
Costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and Ann Hould-Ward
Lighting Design by Richard Nelson
Special Effects by Bran Ferren
Movement by Randolyn Zinn
Sound by Tom Morse
Hair and Makeup by Lo Presto/Allen
Musical Direction by Paul Gemignani
Orchestrations by Michael Starobin
The following musical numbers were deleted prior to the May 2, 1984 opening: “Yoo-Hoo!” “Soldiers and Girls,” “Have to Keep Them Humming”
Sunday in the Park with George gave its first performance in New York City at the Booth Theatre, where it began previews on April 2, 1984, opened on May 2nd and closed on October 12, 1985 after 604 performances and 35 previews.
AWARDS
Pulitzer Prize — Drama (1985)
New York Drama Critics Circle Award — Best Musical
Tony Awards: Best Scenic Design (Tony Straiges) and Best Lighting (Richard Nelson). Also received Tony nominations for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (James Lapine), Best Music and Lyrics (Stephen Sondheim), Best Direction of a Musical (James Lapine), Best Actor in a Musical (Mandy Patinkin), Best Actress in a Musical (Bernadette Peters), Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Dana Ivey), Best Costume Design (Patricia Zipprodt and Ann Hould-Ward).
Sunday in the Park with George was first presented in London by the Royal National Theatre in repertory at the Lyttelton Theatre on March 15, 1990 for a limited engagement of 117 performances, with the following cast:
(In order of appearance)
ACT I
GEORGE, an artist Philip Quast
DOT, his mistress Maria Friedman
AN OLD LADY Sheila Ballantine
HER NURSE Nuala Willis
FRANZ, servant to Jules and Yvonne Michael O’Connor
BOY BATHER Keir Charles or Samuel Woodward
SMALL BOY BATHERS Christopher Line, Marc Bellamy or Marco Williamson, James Nyman
JULES, another artist Gary Raymond
YVONNE, his wife Nyree Dawn Porter
A BOATMAN Michael Attwell
CELESTE #1 Megan Kelly
CELESTE #2 Clare Burt
LOUIS, a baker Aneirin Huws
A SOLDIER Nicolas Colicos
LOUISE, daughter to Jules and Yvonne Naomi Kerbel or Ann Gosling
FRIEDA, Jules and Yvonne’s cook, wife to Franz Di Botcher
MAN PLAYING THE HORN Barry Atkinson
DANCING GIRL Antonio Boyd or Emily Sault
WOMAN LOOKING FOR A GLOVE Ellen van Schuylenburch
MR. & MRS., an American couple Matt Zimmerman and Vivienne Martin
ACT II
GEORGE, an artist Philip Quast
MARIE, his grandmother Maria Friedman
DENNIS, a technician Michael O’Connor
BOB GREENBERG, the museum director Gary Raymond
NAOMI EISEN, a composer Nyree Dawn Porter
HARRIET PAWLING, a patron of the arts Nuala Willis
BILLIE WEBSTER, her friend Vivienne Martin
CHARLES REDMOND, a visiting curator Matt Zimmerman
ALEX, an artist Nicolas Colicos
BETTY, an artist Clare Burt
LEE RANDOLPH, the museum’s publicist Michael Attwell
BLAIR DANIELS, an art critic Sheila Ballantine
ELAINE, George’s former wife Di Botcher
CHROMOLUME PERFORMERS Barry Atkinson, Aneirin Huws, Megan Kelly, Ellen van Schuylenburch
A WAITRESS Buffy Davis
A PHOTOGRAPHER Simon Fielder
GUESTS Stephen Hanley, Erika Vincent
Directed by Steven Pimlott
Designed by Tom Cairns
Lighting by Wolfgang Gobbel
Orchestrations by Michael Starobin
Musical Direction by Jeremy Sams
Choreographer, Aletta Collins
Chromolume #7, Martin Duncan
Sound, Mike Clayton, Paul Groothius
Conductor, John Jansson
Sunday in the Park with George was presented by Michael Brandman and Emanuel Azenberg, in association with The Shubert Organization and American Playhouse, on cable television’s “Broadway on Showtime” series on February 18, 1986, and subsequently on “American Playhouse” (PBS) on June 16, 1986, with the following cast:
GEORGE, an artist Mandy Patinkin
DOT/MARIE Bernadette Peters
JULES/BOB GREENBERG Charles Kimbrough
OLD LADY/BLAIR DANIELS Barbara Bryne
YVONNE/NAOMI EISEN Dana Ivey
CELESTE #2/ELAINE Mary D’Arcy
WOMAN/PHOTOGRAPHER Sue Anne Gershenson
LOUIS/BILLY WEBSTER Cris Groenendaal
MAN/PARTY GUEST John Jellison
MR./PUBLICIST Frank Kopyc
NURSE/MRS./HARRIET PAWLING Judith Moore
FRIEDA/BETTY Nancy Opel
BOATMAN/CHARLES REDMOND William Parry
LOUISE Natalie Polizzie
GIRL Michele Rigan
FRANZ/DENNIS Brent Spiner
CELESTE #1/WAITRESS Melanie Vaughan
SOLDIER/ALEX Robert Westenberg
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Produced by Iris Merlis
Executive in Charge of Production, Greg Sills
Directed for Television by Terry Hughes
Directed for the Stage by James Lapine
Musical Director and Conductor, Paul Gemignani
Orchestrations by Michael Starobin
Scenery by Tony Straiges
Costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and An Hould-Ward
Lighting Design by Richard Nelson
Lighting Consultant, Bill Klages
Special Effects by Bran Ferren
Movement by Randolyn Zinn
Sound by Tom Morse
The television production was taped October 21-25, 1985 at the Booth Theatre shortly after the close of the Broadway production and with all but two members (Kurt Knudson and Danielle Ferland) of the original Broadway cast. This production is available on video cassette: Lorimar Home Video 370/Image Entertainment DG(S) ID5151.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
* Original Broadway Cast Recording (1984)
RCA Records
LP HBC1-5042 (S)
Cassette HBE1-51M2
A Collector’s Sondheim (1985)
RCA Records
LP CRL4-5359 (S); 4 record set
Cassette CRK4-5359; 4 tape set
Includes: “Children and Art” Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin; “Move On”—Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin
Sondheim (1985)
Book-of-the-Month Records
LP 81-7515 (S); 3 record set
Cassette 91-7516; 2 tape set
Includes: “Finishing the Hat”—Cris Groenendaal
The Broadway Album/Barbra Streisand (1985)
Columbia Records
LP OC 40092
Cassette OCT 40092
Includes: “Putting It Together” (with Sondheim’s slightly revised lyric)
Televised Video Recording (1985)
Karl-Lorimar Home Video VHS 370
Image Laserdisc ID5151
Symphonic Sondheim/Don Sebesky Conducts The London
Symphony Orchestra (1990)
WEA Records (London)
LP 9031-72 119-1
Cassette 9031-72 1194
Includes: “Finishing the Hat”
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)
RCA Victor
Includes: “Sunday”
* Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album
Larry Gelbart has written for radio, television, film and the stage. His radio credits include material for Duffy’s Tavern, Jack Paar and Bob Hope, and for television he wrote for “The Bob Hope Show,” “Caesar’s Hour,” “The Danny Kaye Show,” for which he received a Peabody Award, and the Art Carney Specials, for which he received a Sylvania Award. He developed and co-produced with Gene Reynolds the television series M*A*S*H, which earned him an Emmy Award, Peabody Award, Humanitas Award and several Writers Guild of America Awards. His screenplays include The Notorious Landlady (1960), The Wrong Box (1966, co-authored with Burt Shevelove), Oh, God! (1977), for which he received the Writers Guild of America Award and Edgar Allen Poe Award and which received the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Award and nominations for the Oscar and British Academy Award. For the stage he wrote the books for the musicals The Conquering Hero (1961), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962, in collaboration with Burt Shevelove) and City of Angels (1989), and his plays include Jump (1971), Sly Fox (1976, based on Ben Jonson’s Volpone), Mastergate (1989) and Power Failure (1992). He received Tony Awards for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and City of Angels, and a second Edgar Allen Poe award for the latter. Mr. Gelbart is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, West, the Writers Guild of Great Britain, ASCAP, and the Directors Guild. His autobiography, Laughing Matters: On Writing M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God!, and a Few Other Funny Things, was published in 1998.
Burt Shevelove made his Broadway debut as the director and co-author of the revue Small Wonder (1948). He co-authored with Larry Gelbart the book for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), for which he received a Tony Award, directed the award-winning productions of Hallelujah, Baby! (1968) and No, No, Nanette (1971), for which he also restructured the long and involved book of the original 1925 production, adapted and directed William Gillette’s play Too Much Johnson (1964) for off Broadway, wrote the book for and directed the musical The Frogs (1974, adapted from the comedy by Aristophanes, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) and wrote and directed the musical Happy New Year (1980, adapted from Philip Barry’s play Holiday). For the screen he co-authored with Larry Gelbart and co-produced The Wrong Box (1966), and for television he produced, directed and wrote hundreds of shows starring, among others, Jack Benny, Art Carney, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, for which he received numerous awards, including Emmy, Sylvania and Christopher awards, and the Peabody Award for Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf. At the time of his death in 1982 Mr. Shevelove was preparing a musical version of The Front Page.
Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1986), Assassins (1990), Passion (1994) and Saturday Night (written in 1955, premiered in 1999), the lyrics for West Side Story (1957, music by Leonard Bernstein), and the music and lyrics for Putting It Together, a musical revue. He provided incidental music for the plays The Girls of Summer (1956), Invitation to a March (1961), Twigs (1971) and Enclave (1973). He wrote the music and the lyrics for the television production Evening Primrose (1966), composed the film scores for Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981), wrote songs for the motion pictures The Seven Percent Solution (1976), Dick Tracy (1990) and The Birdcage (1996) and co-authored the film The Last of Sheila (1973). He won Tony Awards for his scores for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods, and all of these musicals won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, as did Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George, the latter also receiving the Pulitzer prize in 1985. Mr. Sondheim is on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981, was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983, received the London Evening Standard Award in 1988 for his contribution to the musical theater, and in 1988 was named the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. Stephen Sondheim: A Life, his biography by Meryle Secrest, was published in 1998.
Hugh Wheeler was a novelist, playwright and screen writer. He wrote more than thirty mystery novels under the pseudonyms Z. Patrick and Patrick Quentin, and four of his novels were transformed into films: Black Widow, Man in the Net, The Green-Eyed Monster and The Man with Two Wives. For films he wrote the screenplays for Travels with My Aunt, Something for Everyone, A Little Night Music and Nijinsky. His plays include Big Fish, Little Fish (1961), Look: We’ve Come Through (1961) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966, adapted from the Shirley Jackson novel), he co-authored with Joseph Stein the book for a new production of the 1919 musical Irene (1973), wrote the books for A Little Night Music (1973), a new production of Candide (1973), Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979, based on a version of the play by Christopher Bond), and Meet Me in St. Louis (adapted from the 1949 M-G-M musical), contributed additional material for the musical Pacific Overtures (1976), and wrote a new adaptation of the Kurt Weill opera Silverlake, which was directed by Hal Prince at the New York Opera. He received Tony and Drama Desk Awards for A Little Night Music, Candide and Sweeney Todd. Prior to his death in 1987 Mr. Wheeler was working on two new musicals, Bodo and Fu Manchu, and a new adaptation of The Merry Widow.
Jonathan Tunick, long regarded as Broadway’s re-eminent orchestrator, has contributed to the succ
ess of such landmark productions as Sweeney Todd, Follies, A Little Night Music, Company, A Chorus Line, Into the Woods, Passion, and the 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He has also composed and conducted over thirty scores for motion pictures and television, including PBS’s American Masters series and his Emmy-nominated scores for Concealed Enemies on PBS and NBC’s Tattinger’s. He is Music Director of the Opera Ensemble of New York, where he specializes in conducting classic light opera and musicals. He was the conductor of the CBS recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific with Kiri Te Kanawa and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has long been associated with Judy Collins as arranger-conductor, and has also performed in the same capacity with Barbra Streisand, Placido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman and Paul McCartney. He has received the Emmy and Drama Desk Awards, and for his work on the film version of A Little Night Music, the Academy Award. He was also awarded a Grammy as arranger-conductor of the RCA album Cleo Sings Sondheim. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music describes him as “A skillful technician, whose sympathetic understanding of orchestral instruments is often employed to heighten the dramatic effect of a work.” Martin Gottfried, in The Broadway Musical, refers to him as “...the finest orchestrator in our theater’s history.” Mr. Tunick was the recipient of the first Tony Award for orchestration for his work on Titanic (1997).
Christopher Bond has spent the last 45 years acting, directing and writing for the stage and occasionally for television and radio. He lived and worked in Liverpool for 15 years, directing, writing and eventually becoming Artistic Director of both the Everyman and Playhouse Theatres there. He subsequently became Artistic Director of the Half Moon Theatre in London’s East End from 1984 to 1989. He has worked extensively in Europe, Scandinavia, Israel and the United States as a director. He has written over 30 pieces for the Theatre including Sweeney Todd, Downright Hooligan, Tarzan’s Last Stand, Judge Jeffreys, and new versions of Dracula, Wycherley’s The Country Wife, Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera and Verdi’s Macbeth.
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