Celebrities to Grace Red Carpet Opening Night of “Sunday in the Park with George” at the Playhouse Today – Pasadena Weekendr

The Pasadena Playhouse will host the red carpet premiere debut of Sunday in the Park with George tonight as part of the Playhouse’s Sondheim Celebration. Confirmed celebrities are on the guest list Rosie O’Donnell, Wayne Brady, Wendie Malick, Alfred Molina, Teri Hatcher, Anna Camp, Larry Owens and many more more.

The opening is only part of one ambitious, month-long Playhouse tribute to influential composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, featuring a variety of activities including a theater exhibition and performance series, a workshop series, a film series,

The performance series includes musicals, songs and scenes from Sondheim’s musicals.

Now through March 14, Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George,” which won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is on the stage.

Described by the New York Theater Guide as “a jewel in its own right, radiant with talent and shimmering with color and light”, the work transports theatergoers to a Sunday afternoon on the Île de la Grande Jatte, an island in the Seine River in Paris, where the French artist George Seurat hopes to find the inspiration to create a masterpiece.

When the piece comes together, people come alive; his mother, his friends, his critics, the woman he loves. Line by line, point by point, will George create something lasting, something new? (He creates his most famous work, of course – a sparkling example of it himself Pointillism and a founding work of the Neo-Impressionist movement.)

The entire celebration is expected to last through August. It will cover a wide range of Sondheim’s work, from his early musicals to his later works.

A related exhibition, which will be held in the playhouse lobby, will feature costumes and sets from Sondheim’s musicals along with photographs and other memorabilia. The workshop series includes classes and workshops on musical theater including acting, singing and dancing. The film series includes films based on Sondheim’s work as well as documentaries about his life and career. The celebrations also include special events such as round tables and lectures, and a book club focused on Sondheim’s works. No Sondheim fan should miss these events.

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