White. A blank page or canvas
The challenge: To bring order to the whole
"Sunday In The Park With George" by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim.
And I got to play George. George Seurat.
But, ahm, I knew nothing about painting.
So Carol, my wife, and I went off to Paris to the Musée d′Orsay to find his paintings.
We turned up at this, eh, amazing building, and, eh, we went in and -
Look, if you come from where I come from you would never expect to see these things in a whole lifetime.
And there they were, things you'd only ever seen in books.
So... Cezannes and... waterlilies... that Monet fellow...
And, eh... and Degas... and, eh... Toulouse-Lautrecs and Van Goghs, and, eh...
And then there was this one painting... a Seurat...
Look, it′s made of a sort of dots...
Thousands, millions of dots...
And then - I got the score!
And I have to learn to paint
Paint sticks, paint dogs...
Sorry, darling?... A baby?!!
But I've gotta paint hats!
And I have to improve my articulation
And I have to rehearse my intonation
And then I have to learn to count the beats
Two three four five - shit...
(Two three four five six seven eight)
I don't care what we call it, I′ve gotta learn this song!...
(One two three four five six seven eight)
And right down in my guts, looming ever closer...
There′s only color and light
Just blue and yellow and white
What if your baby comes on opening night?
Hello, Stephen. How are you?
No, look over there, miss-
That′s done with green...
He hates me... he hates me...
Not in a million years...
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit...
Just look at it all, will you...
From the blue-green blue-green
Di-ag-ag-ag-o-nal-nal-nal-nal
Yellow comma yellow comma
Blue-green the window shut
Dot Dot getting fat fat fat
Finish the hat finish the hat
Have to finish the hat first
Hot hot hot it's hot in here...
There′s only color and light
And red and purple and white
Carol is the size of a truck...
Look at this glade, girls
She's on the floor of the cab
No, stay in the shade, girls
And it's warm inside his eyes
And it′s soft inside his eyes
And you drown inside his eyes
I could look at him forever...