On Sunday in New York City, the Broadway community gathered to honor, mourn, and celebrate the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. On the red st…
gathered in a chorus to sing “Sunday,” the heartrending act one finale to Sondheim’s ““Let us pass,” the chorus sang, “through our perfect park.”
In “Sunday in the Park with George,” a masterpiece about the personal toll of dedicating oneself to art, “Sunday” assembles a tableau vivant of Georges Seurat’s famous pointillist masterpiece, a moment of artistic genius that is both fleeting and forever.
During the celebration, Miranda offered a sermon of sorts. Foregoing a speech, he opened Sondheim’s “Look I Made A Hat,” an annotated anthology of the composer’s lyrics, and read from a few passages before the crowd.“Once during the writing of each show, I cry at a notion, a word, a chord, a melodic idea, an accompaniment figure,” Miranda read from Sondheim’s words. “In [‘Sunday in the Park with George’], it was the word ‘forever’ in ‘Sunday,’” Miranda continued, beginning to choke up.
After his remarks, Miranda stepped down from the director’s podium to join the chorus as they sang “Sunday” for a second and final time. On the steps, Broadway, and its collected actors, directors, crew members, and composers, wept in mourning.“Everybody who’s here has a touchstone for why Sondheim’s music has brought them to this place,” Groban toldafter the performance.
“‘Sunday,’ Groban said, “is about capturing moments and holding on to them while we have them, even the ones that might seem ordinary. It’s a song about gratitude, about making sure to hold each other close.”
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