It's Hot Up Here
Musings on Sunday in the Park with George's Act II opener
Precisely a hundred years elapse between the two acts of Sunday in the Park with George, but when the second curtain rises it seems as though not a moment has passed. Those on stage appear exactly as we last saw them: a tableau, frozen in time. Seurat’s painting is complete, its subjects fixed forever in their various poses—much to their chagrin. The op…
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