Peter O'Brien
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Sunday is it's an amazing piece.
It's about George Sura painting the painting Sunday on the island of the Grand Jatte.
And it's basically, Sondheim wrote it, it's about artists and how they suffer for their art.
And the first half of the opera is kind of a fictionalised version of George painting the painting with his mistress Dot, who's also the model.
And the second part is his great grandson, who's a conceptual artist in the 1980s when the show was written.
But Sunday's wonderful because it's the very end of the show and they've managed to kind of
the set director, the costume director, they've kind of reconstructed the painting.
And it sounds really silly.
I gave my students this year a project on it.
And when I started to talk about it, I started to weep.
I mean, I get terribly, it's such a wonderful, beautiful thing.
And Bernadette Peters, yeah.
OK, that's Sunday.
It's going to be the hottest show in the UK next year.
Ariana Grande is going to play Dot.
And what's his name?
The boy who was in Company and who was in Wicked.
The dark headed boy.