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Summerfield's Sunday in the Park with George

Summerfield Waldorf School- Sophia Hall
Santa Rosa, CA

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Summerfield's Sunday in the Park with George

An unusual title for an unusual musical that did something musicals almost never do: it won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Subsequent productions all over the world have established it as one of the most beautiful, evocative, and satisfying musicals in the repertoire. Focusing on the life of Georges Seurat as he was painting his pointillist masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in 1880s Paris, it is "An audacious, haunting meditation on creation, sacrifice, obsession, and what it is to love an artist" (New York Times).

As the characters, landscape, and colors of the painting come alive, animated by Sondheim's masterful and stunning score and the creative imagination of Seurat, we are transported into both another's vision and the idea that all people shape their lives by looking, that vision itself is a creative act, and that there are costs and rewards to the choosing of realities. Relationships don't always run smoothly or to the length we would like. Artistic success may not be measured by the marketplace (Seurat never sold a painting during his lifetime). There is a difference between pretty and beautiful. Change is a constant. And Art Isn't Easy.

The work of this modern musical master includes music and lyrics for Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and lyrics for West Side Story. If you don't know Sunday in the Park with George, treat yourself to a new experience and immersion in Color and Light, in extraordinary musical beauty, humor, and pathos. If you do know Sunday in the Park with George, you are already planning to come see our terrific Summerfield students enact this masterpiece of musical drama.

Kevin Simmons