Finishing the Hat - Sunday In The Park With George

Mandy Patinkin as George Seurat, as requested by AndersonPeterB.
Enjoy! :)

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Music

Tags:

• Stephen Sondheim
• Mandy Patinkin
• George Seurat
• awesomeness

[FantasiaMagia]

Does anyone else cry during this song? I can't get through without at least tearing up.

[TheMoraitika1]

@GymnopedieTornado I see it as George saying "Look, there was NOTHING and then, there was a hat. And it was ME that created it. Out of nothing. THAT'S how important my work is to me" I am so pleased to see this again!

[spongebobslushpants1]

Phenomenal.

[JhonathanFree]

@1skinnyguy Bullshit. I'm an artist and I CREATE. There was NOTHING there and I CREATED it. God sat by and did squat.

[1skinnyguy]

This song is a stunner, for the artists who understand the process of making art (I don't use the word "create' because man cannot create anything. Only God is the Creator of all. We merely rearrange the molecules. We assemble and invent and compose, but nothing is "created" by man.) Anyway, that's beside the point. Sondheim speaks volumes about the imaginative process of making art. The lyrics are sublime; and the passion---heartfelt, tragic and true.

[aschw1121]

Sondheim's thoughts on this song are fascinating and can be read from his second volume of lyrics, "Look, I Made a Hat." Georges is fully expressing how an artist goes "to a different planet" during that wonderful period of creation and is shut to the world around him. Sondheim talks of his favorite time finishing a hat - one evening, Sondheim began to create a card game, and got so into its creation, that only when the sun came up at 7am did he realize he had worked for 11 straight hours.

[migrations]

This song fucking blows my mind. Best musical Theatre ever. Fuck Glee.

[JerRob1024]

@GymnopedieTornado I think that Georges is realizing his obsession. He has obsessed completely over this hat - "studying the hat", "entering the world of the hat", "finishing the hat". Of course, the supreme irony is that he has not even began to draw or create the hat. He is that obsessed.

[mycurlseatbabies]

My absolute favorite.

[fridrikrinnGamli]

It expresses what it is to create, and the sacrifices you make in order to create. Such a simple metaphor. Such a beautiful expression.

[Blactor]

Man. This song, and Mandy performing it.

It's so interesting to watch him do "Buddy's Blues"--where is is manic and frenzied and outrageous--and then to watch his performance in SitPwG, which is so simple, understated, keen, and strong.

What a truly great actor.

Anyone else see the duet between he and Patti Lupone singing "Move On"?

[nickfox2]

@FantasiaMagia It may be my favorite single Sondheim song, and has made me cry more times than I can remember. The lyrics (and the music) are profoundly beautiful and wise, and mean something new to me each time. Then again, this entire show reduces me to a puddle of tears every time; for me, it is the greatest of all musicals.