Related topics Chicago Shakespeare TheaterNavy PierStephen SondheimChicago PlaysChicago music Advertisement Chicago Shakespeare Theater opens its 2012-13 season with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park with George. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, this poignant and appealing musical is inspired by the life of 19th century French artist George Seurat. Act 1 takes place in Paris during 1884-1886, the two years that Seurat devoted to painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884, his much loved 7'x10' masterpiece that is prominently on display on the second floor of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was while gazing at Seurat's...
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