Sunday In The Park With George (Applause Musical Library) [Hardcover]

James Lapine (Author), Christopher Bond (Introduction), Stephen Sondheim (Composer)

Book Description

Series: Applause Musical Library | Publication Date: May 1, 2000

Book by James Lapine Introduction by Andre Bishop Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize! "Sunday is itself a modernist creation, perhaps the first truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has produced ... a watershed event that demands nothing less than a retrospective, even revisionist, look at the development of the serious Broadway musical."- Frank Rich, The New York Times Magazine

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Applause Books (May 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557830673
• ISBN-13: 978-1557830678
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pulitzer and Seurat put together by Sondheim and Lapine, May 20, 2000

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This review is from: Sunday In The Park With George (Applause Musical Library) (Hardcover)

This show is like a work of the main Character Georges Seurat. Point and point are putted together to a great piece of art. Stepehn Sondheim who recieved the Pulitzer Prize for this astonishing work of American Musical Theatre puts all the points together to one brilliant composition of story and storytelling his co-author James Lapine who wrote the book while Sondheim wrote the lyrics does a great job, too. It is the most beautiful kind of lyric I ever had seen in this masterpiece: Children and art. I really enjoyed to read this book and it is essentially for everybody who is interested in the Musical Theatre.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interpretation, November 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sunday In The Park With George (Applause Musical Library) (Hardcover)

Sondheim and Lapine wrote an excellent musical about the pointillist painter George Seurat. I really started to love the musical when I read Marc Bauch's "Themes and Topics of the American Musical" (Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3828811418), which I recommend to get to know how intertextually Sondheim worked. Bauch put Sondheim in the tradition of the American Musical with reference to his themes.