Julian Ovenden & More Star in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE in Paris, Opening Tonight!

After A Little Night Music in 2010 and Sweeney Todd in 2011, Châtelet presents another masterpiece from Stephen Sondheim, opening tonight, April 15, 2013, and running through April 25, 2013. The cast features Julian Ovenden (Georges / George), Sophie-Louise Dann (Dot / Marie), Nickolas Grace (Jules / Greenberg), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Old Lady / Elaine), with Jessica Walker, David Curry, Rebecca Bottone, Francesca Jackson, and Beverley Klein.

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The pointillist painting by Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, painted between 1884 and 1886, is the starting point of this passionate reflection on the artist's work. Sondheim and his librettist have imagined the exhausting work of Seurat painting this huge table with this breath-taking technique, to the point of neglecting Dot ("Point"), his mistress, who is expecting a child.

Act 2 continues the theme of the arduous nature of the artist's lot by bringing forward the action to New York in 1984, where George, Seurat's great-grandson, is struggling against the odds.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985, the work is powerful and poetic. The refinement of the great songs, like Putting It Together or Sunday, has contributed significantly to the reputation of this very moving work.

Originaly staged on Broadway by James Lapine Originaly produced on Broadway by The Shubert Organization & Emanuel Azenberg, WithPlaywrights Horizon, Inc., New York City, creator of the original production of Sunday in the Park with George in 1983