Putting It Together, James Lapine
Putting It Together, James Lapine
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Putting It Together
How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George

Author: James Lapine

Narrator: Adam Grupper, Alyssa Bresnahan, Eva Kaminsky, T. Ryder Smith, Graham Winton, Len Cariou

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/03/2021

Synopsis

Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat’s nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friendship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn

If, like me, you were saddened by the death of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim late last year, this book – about the making of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1984 musical – will make you appreciate him and his genius a little bit more. Sunday In The Park With George – inspired by Georges Seurat a......more

Goodreads review by Tom O’Leary

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE is perhaps my all time favorite musical. The ending of Act One is one of the most moving moments I have experienced in the theater. This behind the scenes memoir of the creation of SUNDAY is mesmerizing. On these witty pages author/creator Lapine shares the blood, swea......more

Goodreads review by Doug

4.5, rounded down. I guess it's especially appropriate that I read most of this on what would have been Sondheim's 92nd birthday. It follows in the grand tradition of the sine qua non of such books: Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies, which chronicled the creation of another So......more

Goodreads review by Douglas

Putting Together is an extraordinary book about the act of making art. Sunday in the Park with George is one of my favorite plays, and I found it thrilling that Lapine pulls back the curtain and reveals what it’s really like to produce a show of this magnitude. Lapine takes the reader from the initi......more

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