Sunday In the Park with George (2017)
Opening Night: February 23, 2017
Closing: April 23, 2017
Theater: Hudson Theatre
Jake Gyllenhaal makes his Broadway musical debut alongside Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford in the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday In the Park with George. The three-night only production at City Center was one of the most critically acclaimed theatrical events of the season, and now it is headed to Broadway to open the highly-anticipated new Hudson Theatre where it will play a strictly limited engagement for 10 weeks only. Be there for this stunning musical about the art of making art—this is not your ordinary Sunday.
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February 23, 2017
You want to know about Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance, right? Whether, in the New York City Center production of Sunday In The Park With George (a limited-run extension of a one-off performance last October) he nails Stephen Sondheim’s jagged music and questing, fiendish lyrics? How are the Hollywood star’s inhabitations of Georges Seurat, and later George, Seurat’s great-grandson? Is he all butchness and beard, no nuance? How does director Sarna Lapine, niece of James Lapine, author of the musical’s book, convey Seurat’s famous 1884 pointillist painting, “Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte” (“A Sunday afternoon on the island of the Grand Jatte”)?
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February 23, 2017
He is a thorny soul, a man neither happy nor particularly kind, and not someone you’d be likely to befriend. But when the 19th-century French painter Georges Seurat, reincarnated in the solitary flesh by a laser-focused Jake Gyllenhaal, demands that you look at the world as he does, it’s impossible not to fall in love.
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February 23, 2017
A 98-year-old woman named Marie sits in a wheelchair surveying the Georges Seurat painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1984. She is, she insists, the artist’s daughter by a model named Dot who appears at the front of the composition. “The child is so sweet and the girls are so rapturous,” Marie sings of the characters Seurat has gathered in perpetuity. “Isn’t it lovely how artists can capture us?”
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s got it, by George! A handsome, nimble singing voice to go with his solid acting chops, that is. It’s all on exhibition in Broadway’s wonderful revival of “Sunday in the Park with George” at the newly renovated Hudson Theatre.
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February 23, 2017
A superb revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1984 masterpiece “Sunday in the Park with George,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, has brought back to life the 113-year-old Hudson Theatre in Times Square.
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