Sunday in the Park with George

James Lapine directed this television adaptation of his acclaimed musical, which he created in collaboration with the great composer Stephen Sondheim. In the first act, artist Georges Seurat (Mandy Patinkin) is working on his latest painting with the woman he loves, Dot (Bernadette Peters), posing ...more

James Lapine's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning 1984 musical is a rousing success. The innovative composer uses a somewhat apocryphal account of the life of 19th century French pointillist George Seurat (Mandy Patinkin) as a springboard for an exploration of the relationship of life and art. Sondheim, who has often been taken to task by critics for work deemed excessively cerebral for a Broadway musical, has chosen to flaunt that very quality here, as he celebrates the arduous ...more