Los Angeles' Reprise! Broadway's Best will present Stephen Sondheim's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George as its second show of the 2006-2007 season, starring Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominee Kelli O'Hara (Broadway's The Light in the Piazza and The Pajama Game, opposite Harry Connick Jr.).
With music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park will be directed by
Jason Alexander and musically directed by Gerald Sternbach.
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George is a moving portrait of an artist struggling to reconcile the perfect, imaginary world of his painting with the imperfect, messy world of real life. Act I revolves around Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and the creation of his signature painting 'Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatte.' Seurat's inability to commit to anyone or anything but his work is echoed in Act II as George's great-grandson confronts his own artistic demons and failure to connect. Past and present merge as both Georges discover basic truths about art, human connection and the constant struggle to 'break through to something new.' Some of Sondheim's most beautiful songs are featured in the score including 'Putting it Together,' 'Move On,' 'Children and Art' and 'Sunday,'" state notes.
O'Hara's other credits include
The Sweet Smell of Success, Dracula, Sondheim's Follies and
Jekyll & Hyde, and can be heard on the original cast recording of
The Light in the Piazza.
Sunday in the Park With George previews on Tuesday, January 30, 2006 and runs through Sunday, February 11, 2006 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Tickets can be purchased by calling the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310-825-2101. For more information, visit:
www.reprise.org.
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