Review: ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ – Encores Great American Musicals at City Center
The two are intended to travel to Paris, to the island where the painting was made, to unveil the Chromolume but Marie has died and George goes it alone, taking with him the book he inherited from Marie which Dot used to learn grammar. A vision of Dot appears to him in the park and he confides in her. Her moving plea to him, the song “Move On,” asks him to continue where his great-grandfather left off.
As George discovers handwritten notations in the back of the book – words the original George absentmindedly muttered while he painted – and reads them aloud, the cast reassembles on stage and the company reprises “Sunday.”
The 14-piece ensemble led by Chris Fenwick does justice to Mr. Sondheim’s avant-garde score, and Beowolf Boritt’s set and Clint Ramos’ costumes are, of course, picture perfect.
At the end, just as in the beginning, the stage becomes the empty white canvas that George loves because it promises “so many possibilities.” Whether examined from a distance, or up close, “Sunday in the Park with George” is art, subject to interpretation by each person who gazes upon it but the lasting impression it leaves is nonetheless profound.
THE DETAILS
“Sunday in the Park with George”
Limited engagement through October 26, 2016
New York City Center
131 W 55th Street
New York, N.Y. 10019
Tel. +1 (212) 581-1212
www.nycitycenter.org
(Photo: Accura Media Group)
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