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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with George Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George . In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat's nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte . Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, and with a treasure trove of personal photographs, sketches, script notes, and sheet music, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friend - ship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.
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"[A] luminous debut ..."
"A particular highlight of this book are its reproductions of original notes and sketches, photographs of cast and crew, and the musical's full script ..."
"This delightful book revisits the two years they spent telling a fictionalized version of Seurat's life ..."
"The interviews in this blend of oral history and theater memoir are frank and friendly ..."
"Lapine recalls this in a sequence of transcribed conversations, which gives the book a nice flow and allows all involved a turn in the spotlight ..."
"Sondheim foremost among them, and all are forthright and revealing, as well as amusing ..."
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