The rarely produced Stephen Sondheim musical is about the artist's struggle to create
It’s a rare occasion when theatergoers have the opportunity to see a production of the musical masterpiece “Sunday in the Park with George.”
Over the past year, fledgling CCAE Theatricals has emerged as San Diego County’s most promising new producer of musical theater. Run by artistic director Jordan Beck and managing producer J. Scott Lapp, the company stages top-notch productions of new, ambitious and less-traveled musicals featuring creative artists from around the country, as well as a live orchestra.
“Sunday” is inspired by the 19th-century French artist Georges Seurat, who created the painting style known as pointillism, where a series of multicolored dots, rather than brushstrokes, come together to form a picture. In the first act, we meet the obsessive and insufferable 1880s-era George. And in the second we meet his great-grandson, George, a burnt-out American artist in search of inspiration.
Seurat would sketch visitors at an island park in Paris on Sunday afternoons, and then assemble bits and pieces of his drawings into a full-scale painted tableau. It’s breathtaking to watch Blum orchestrate Seurat’s famous and history-making “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”
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