Set model for the Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George; scene shows a woman standing on her own in a lush green park
© Tony Straiges. Photograph by Robert Kato

Tony Straiges (b. 1942)
Set model for the Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George
Mixed media, ca. 1984
Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Set model for the Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday in the Park with George was the first collaboration between composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and playwright James Lapine after Sondheim and Harold Prince took a break from their longtime artistic partnership. The first act of this musical tells a mostly fictional account of the creation of French artist Georges Seurat’s famous pointillist painting, Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte, depicting Parisians enjoying a Sunday afternoon on the banks of the River Seine. The painting is brought to vibrant life on stage by the actors, the costumes, and Straiges’s Tony Award-winning scenic design.

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