Sunday in the Park with George at California Center for the Arts, Escondido

In the final days before the completion of his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat is torn between making meaningful art and maintaining a relationship with his lover, Dot. One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, Sunday in the Park with George won the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical. This stunning masterpiece merges past and present into beautiful, poignant truths about life, love and the creation of art. The story, spanning over a century, begins in 1884 with struggling artist Georges Seurat, who demands that the world look at art in a shocking new way. A century later, Seurat’s grandson George—also an artist—is frustrated as he searches for his artistic path only to find the answer to his future is in the past.

Authors

• Georges Seurat
• James Lapine
• Stephen Sondheim

Tony Awards and Nominations for Sunday in the Park with George