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Rating:  - Great DVD
Quality is excellent
Show is great
Actors are formidable
Shipping was poor...
Rating:  - Sunday in the Park with George
This DVD is like watching the musical live in person. If you love Mandy Patinkin and Berandette Peters as much as I do your heart will not be the same after experianceing their performances. If you are not familiar with the painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Le Grand Jate" it is an exquisite giant painting all done with pointalism (using tiny dots) to create a gorgeous scene of different people at a park as a period piece. This musical depicts George Seurat's (the painter) journey to create this painting and how the people in the painting literally come to life. It's about beauty and how that beauty is transfered in the ages.
Rating: - A Classic
Bernadette and Mandy at their peak! Sondheim's music is devilishly hard, but the singing is first-rate. A must-have in any theater fan's collection.
Rating: - Sunday in the Park with George
This is a classic performance of Sondheim's wonderful musical based on the famous Georges Seurat pointillist painting "Sunday on the Isle Grand Jatte",(now hanging in the Chicago Institute of Art), replete with little scenes and set to captivating music by Sondheim. The musical is enhanced with a fictitious "story" involving Georges and his girlfriend Dot...plus a science fiction-like last act, featuring the present where an American great-grandson, George, faces and conquers a creative crisis. The music and acting (by Mandy Patinkin and Bernardette Peters) in this Broadway performance are first rate, as is the staging. This disc is a treasure. Grab it while it is still available.
Rating: - the musical that changed my life......
When I was about four years old, I happened to see Stephen Sondheim's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and it transformed the way I saw and interpreted painting. Specifically, I fell in love with the painting that it was based on--Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jette, by the pointellist painter, Georges Seurat (December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891). The pointellist movement was a bold and wonderful move on the part of this talented artist. The style in which these pieces were painted was through a series of hundred of painted "dots" forming elaborate and colorful studies. This beautiful musical brilliantly translates the themes and attitudes of Seurat's paintings. The first half of the musical is devoted to Seurat (Mandy Patinkin) and his lover, Dot (Bernadette Peters), the inspiration for one of the characters in the famous painted park scene. The second half follows Seurat's descendant, as he retraces the steps in the painter's life. This is a wonderful, vivid and entertaining musical journey. At age four, it was the one thing that motivated me to get on an airplane and travel to Chicago with my family, to at last see the marvelous painting that inspired the show--in the Chicago Museum of Art. I can't predict what it will inspire in you, but it will at least help you come to appreciate the great legacy that Georges Seurat left behind.
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