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Putting It Together
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George" | James Lapine
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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 Seurats 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 Prizewinning classic.
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A book I will cherish as I go down the intimidating aspect of trying to write a musical. Lapine, as he did with “Sunday…” gets all the little points of light and color together to make this fine documentation of mounting a not Broadway friendly musical with the god Sondheim. Page after page of insight.