Sunday in the Park with George

SONDHEIM, Stephen; LAPINE, James

Published by New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986

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One of Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Signed by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Together with Typed Letter Signed and a Signed Photograph SONDHEIM, Stephen. LAPINE, James. Sunday in the Park with George. A Musical. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1966]. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Sondheim and Lapine. Small octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm.). [1]-203, [1, blank] pp. Photogravure portrait of Georges Seurat on p. 14. "Of the first edition of Sunday in the Park with George two hundred and fifty copies have been specially bound, numbered, and signed by the authors. This is copy no. "87" [signed] Stephen" Sondheim [&] "James Lapine" (limitation leaf). Publisher's green cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in the original green cloth slipcase , front panel with printed paper label. Loosely inserted is a TLS to a Mr. Palmer regarding his request for a signed photograph and also the signed 5 1/4 x 6 1/8 inch black & white photograph signed by Stephen Sondheim. Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884 1886). The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for design (and a nomination for Best Musical), numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical, and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production. It has enjoyed several major revivals, including the 2005 06 UK production first presented at the Menier Chocolate Factory, its subsequent 2008 Broadway transfer, and a 2017 Broadway revival. Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930-2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. With his frequent collaborations with Harold Prince and James Lapine, Sondheim's Broadway musicals tackled unexpected themes that ranged beyond the genre's traditional subjects, while addressing darker elements of the human experience. His music and lyrics were tinged with complexity, sophistication, and ambivalence about various aspects of life. James Elliot Lapine (1949-) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sunday in the Park with George
• Publisher: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Theater
  • Signed Limited Edition
  • Music