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the composer! Lionel Bart, who had a serious drug problem, initially wrote the music for La Strada.
James Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
creating this musical about making a work of art was a unique moment for all of us, and in some cases a defining one.
James Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
Julia Jacobs • TikTok to the Grammys: How a ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Beat Broadway (Published 2022)
And it comes right out of the scene. That’s the Rodgers and Hammerstein principle for carrying forward a dramatic moment. In this case, George is announcing that he has turned down a commission and that he doesn’t know what to do next.
James Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
By then, I’d heard Bernadette speak the role, and the accent suggested to me Harold Arlen. He was a Buffalo boy who kept writing southern-inflected music, and I thought, southern inflection … hey, there’s my favorite composer. And I was off and running.
James Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
that it was the eighties and a lot of the crew was doing drugs.