Sunday in the Park with George

One of the most acclaimed musicals of all time, this moving study of the enigmatic painter, Georges Seurat, won a Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The BU School of Theatre production of Sunday in the Park with George is directed by Clay Hopper (CFA’05), Senior Lecturer, Directing, and Katya Stanislavskaya is the show’s music director.

“Sunday in the Park with George is Sondheim’s masterpiece about the act of artistic creation — and what happens when the element of our common humanity is absent from it. The score is exquisite, the script is often hilarious, and among its many themes, artfully interwoven, is one of radical reassertion of our humanity as the center of art’s reason for being,” says Clay Hopper. “In an atomized world, where our connections to each other can be so mediated that we lose sight of why we’re connecting in the first place, this play is a bright sunbeam, a ray hope of hope that our capacity to perceive beauty in all things — and to make that beauty — is our strongest connection of all.”

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Clay Hopper
Music Director • Katya Stanislavskaya

CAST

Program Book

Sunday in the Park with George Opens at Booth Theatre

“It is a breakdown of the entire artistic process and what it’s like to create art and then the impact that it generates on the world around us,” says Keith Robinson (CFA’24).

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