“Sunday in The Park With Porchlight”

Porchlight celebrates the 40th Anniversary of one of Stephen Sondheim’s most celebrated works with a new special event concert staging. Audiences will experience Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer-, Tony- and Oliver-winning musical masterpiece with the original Broadway orchestrations performed by musicians live on stage with an all-star cast at Chicago’s historic and beautifully restored Studebaker Theater.

Based on Georges Seurat’s painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” which is on display just down the street at the Art Institute of Chicago, this limited engagement brings to life the rich score telling the story of the months leading to the completion of Seurat’s famous work in 1886 and the effects of the artist and the art on people over the following 100 years.

I attended last night and you still have one more chance- today at 2 p.m. what an amazing production! This is one of my favorite scores and if you listen close, you will hear almost every Sondheim show has some melody in this masterpiece.

Thank you Porchlight theater!  www.porchlightmusictheatre.org