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    Sunday in the Park with George

    Sunday in the Park with George
    Director: Terry Hughes
    Actors: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Barbara Bryne, Mary D'arcy, Sue Anne Gershenson
    Studio: Image Entertainment
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $24.98
    Buy New: $14.58
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    New (39) Used (17) Collectible (1) from $13.84

    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 reviews
    Sales Rank: 7916

    Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc
    Language: English (Original Language)
    Rating: NR (Not Rated)
    Region: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
    DVD Layers: 2
    DVD Sides: 1
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 146 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6

    MPN: IMED4586D
    ISBN: 630530209X
    UPC: 014381458626
    EAN: 9786305302094
    ASIN: 630530209X

    Theatrical Release Date: 1986
    Release Date: March 23, 1999
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    The broadway musical inspired by the painting a sunday afternoon on the island of grand jatte and loosely based on the life of its creator georges seurat. His classic painting comes to life in this award-winning musical. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 05/27/2008 Starring: Bernadette Peters Mandy Patinkin Run time: 147 minutes Rating: Nr

    Amazon.com essential video
    Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1984 musical Sunday in the Park with George is a fictional representation of maverick French Impressionist painter Georges Seurat's efforts to create his masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte. Seurat, played by Mandy Patinkin, is obsessed with his work, to the frustration of his mistress, Dot (Bernadette Peters). Along the way, we meet many other characters--whoever happens to be in the park that Sunday--who eventually become part of the canvas.

    Act 2 fast-forwards 100 years. Patinkin now plays Seurat's great-grandson, George, himself a frustrated artist. (Peters plays his grandmother--Seurat and Dot's daughter.) In the score's best-known song, "Putting It Together," George (and Sondheim himself) explains the hazards of trying to create art while also confronting the reality of having to pay for it. In a search for inspiration, George travels to the original island where Seurat created the painting. As with Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine's next collaboration, Into the Woods, Sunday is often criticized for redirecting its focus in the second act instead of letting the first act stand by itself as a complete work. The second act, however, is the emotional core of the show, as George confronts all the feelings his great-grandfather had repressed so many years ago.

    Stephen Sondheim's brilliant score is remarkable for its combination of vivid colors (listen to his dots of sound that represent Seurat's pointillistic style of painting), character pieces, and sheer beauty. The cast is terrific, and the show, aced out of most of the 1984 Tony Awards by La Cage aux Folles, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

    Recorded before a live audience, Sunday is especially entertaining on video, as the staging elements bring out the full humor and inventiveness of the show, and it is astonishing to see the disparate characters form themselves into the elements of the familiar painting. So many great musicals are banished to the memories of those who attended live or--even worse--immortalized as inferior movies. Sunday in the Park with George is an absolute must-see for anyone interested in musical theatre, and a must-own for anyone with a passion for it. The DVD includes an audio track with commentary by Sondheim, Lapine, Patinkin, and Peters. --David Horiuchi


    Customer Reviews:   Read 70 more reviews...

    5 out of 5 stars One of the 5 Greatest Musicals of all time!!!   February 23, 2009
    Looney (NYC)
    I was blessed to see this production live, and I have watched this filmed performance about 10 times, and listnened to the cast recording about 100 times...and each and every time I discover something deep and beautiful and new! It says so much about...so much! Patinkin and Peters bring such tenderness to the work...creating a perfect balance to Sondheim's purposely "bizarre, fixed, cold" masterpiece! And the end makes me get misty eyed each and ever time! It's hard to "Move On" from Sunday--It will stay with you forever...


    5 out of 5 stars Sunday in the Park   November 23, 2008
    M. Clanton (Waynesboro, TN USA)
    I purchased this video to show in my art history class. The musical shows such beautiful set designs, and it gives the viewer an idea of the kind of art that Georges Seurat created. My students loved the video, and we enjoyed creating artwork using pointillism.


    5 out of 5 stars Mandy Patinkin is a god among men   July 17, 2008
    Tristan Wilson (Philadelphia, PA)
    This is a fabulous production. The quality of cinematography is much higher than earlier Sondheim video releases. This probably has to do with the way that the set design itself tells a story along with the characters. The environment itself is so malleable it's like another character. It's not a simple, straight forward story, though, like Into the Woods or Sweeney Todd, which can make it initially confusing and offputting to the general public. Definitely worth watching though.


    5 out of 5 stars A Priceless and Exquisite Rendition of Sunday in the Park   June 1, 2008
    Catherine Devin (Potomac, MD USA)
    I can't tell you how much this DVD means to me. Since it is impossible to go back in time and watch Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters perform this beautiful musical live, this is literally the next best thing. Mandy, Bernadette, and all the cast does a magnificent job and, trust me, it translates on-screen. I have seen this DVD countless times and everyone of those times the story greatly moves me. Also, the commentary is wonderful as well. I've learned things about the show I would not have known otherwise and really got a glance into the minds of Stephen Sondheim, James Lapin, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters. Like I said before, this DVD is priceless... and if you're a Sondheim fan, I'm sure you will think so too!


    5 out of 5 stars Look I made a hat, where there never was a hat   April 28, 2008
    P. Ferguson (Quad Cities, IL)
    One of the most interesting shows in the modern musical era. Sondheim's lyrics shine here, and Peters and Patinkin are a great team. Visually stunning, and a good transfer from the original non-digital recording.


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