1. Sunday in the park with George The Original 1984 version
Brookelyn Daniels

2. Opened Off Broadway Playwright Horizons Theatre July, 1983
25 Performances
Only 1st act performed
2nd act premiered last 3 performances

3. Transferred Booth Theatre on Broadway May 2, 1984 604 performances
35 previews
Closed October

4. Cast Bernadette Peters as Dot Mandy Patinkin as George
Barbara Bryne as Old Lady/ Blair Daniels
Judith Moore as Nurse
Brent Spiner as Franz
Charles Kimbrough as Jules
Dana Ivey as Yvonne
Robert Westenberg as Soldier
Danielle Ferland as Louise

5. Awards Nominated for 25 awards Won 12
8 from Drama Desk Awards Including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Director, Outstanding Orchestration, and outstanding lyrics
Nominated for 10 Tony Awards
Won 2 for Best scenic Design and Best lighting
Won NY Drama Critics Circle award for Best Musical
Sondheim & Lapine awarded The Pulitzer Prize for Drama

6. New York Times, Frank Rich (theatre critic) wrote…
 ”I do know... that Mr. Sondheim and Mr. Lapine have created an audacious, haunting and, in its own intensely personal way, touching work. Even when it fails - as it does on occasion - Sunday in the Park is setting the stage for even more sustained theatrical innovations yet to come.”
 ”In a fantastic set by Tony Straiges - an animated toy box complete with pop- ups - Mr. Patinkin's George gradually assembles bits and pieces of the painting, amending and banishing life-size portions of it before our eyes.”

7. Entertainment & Culture, Terry Teachout wrote…
 ”Michael Starobin's ear-caressingly iridescent original 1984 orchestrations, which are among the finest ever to be created for a Broadway show.”
 ”What is most impressive, though, is that none of these effects are ever allowed to get between the actors and the audience: Instead of overwhelming the show, they serve it.”

8. New Line Theatre, Scott Miller wrote…
“The musical just sits back and watches people come and go, being lazy or combative, happy or otherwise, and because we only get snippets of most of these characters' lives, we don't get resolution to their many problems. Like the hundreds of people we each encounter every day without really knowing them, most of the characters in the show just pass through this park, but in this case they are frozen there for all time, caught not all at one moment but at many moments at once.”

9. Cite http://www.newlinetheatre.com/sundaychapter.html