SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

SONDHEIM/LAPINE

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA 2012

"WHITE. A BLANK PAGE OR CANVAS."

THE ISLAND, ACT I

IN THE STUDIO

COLOR AND LIGHT - GEORGE IS LOST IN HIS PAINTING

ANOTHER SCENE ON THE ISLAND

"SUNDAY" - END OF ACT I; THE COMPLETE PAINTING.

IN ACT II, AS THE CHARACTERS LEAVE, THE PAINTING SLOWLY FADES...

TO WHITE.

ACT II. IN THE MUSEUM AUDITORIUM.

ACT II. IN THE MUSEUM GALLERY.

ACT II - "PUTTING IT TOGETHER"

"PUTTING IT TOGETHER" - WE USED FLYING TV'S AS GEORGE'S DOUBLES

ACT II - GEORGE IS BEREFT WHEN MARIE DIES

ACT II - THE ISLAND 100 YEARS LATER. "THIS COULD BE THE TREE FROM THE PAINTING."

ACT II - GEORGE IS VISITED BY THE GHOSTS OF THE PAINTING

"SUNDAY" REPRISE

THE MODEL

Director Ethan Heard imagined a production that centered on George as an artist, and the toll his obsession with his work takes on his personal relationships. We see the world through George's eyes - and through his artistic process. The real Seurat did 80 + sketches over the course of several years in preparation for La Grande Jatte. We decided to create the island with George's sketches, which accumulated and reformed through Act I. George's obsession with color - and his invention of the pointilist technique - were represented with projection. At the end of Act I, as George is assembling the characters into the painting, the sketches slowly fly away as an enormous white canvas decends from the flies. As the canvas hit and the music swelled, the image of the painted island was projected on the canvas.

Directed by Ethan Heard

Set Design: Reid Thompson

Costume Design: Hunter Kaczorowski

Lighting Design: Oliver Wason

Projection Design: Nicholas Hussong

Sound Design: Keri Klick

Photographs by T. Charles Erickson and Christopher Ash