[00:07.90]White, a blank page or canvas
[00:11.35]The challenge: To bring order to the whole
[00:15.40]Through design,
[00:17.43]Composition,
[00:19.61]Balance,
[00:22.56]Light,
[00:25.85]And harmony.
[00:41.21]"Sunday In The Park With George" by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim.
[00:44.90]And I got to play George. George Seurat.
[00:48.89]But, ahm, I knew nothing about painting.
[00:51.69]So Carol, my wife, and I went off to Paris to the Musée d'Orsay to find his paintings.
[00:58.86]We turned up at this, eh, amazing building,
[01:02.77]and, eh, we went in and -
[01:05.69]Look, if you come from where I come from you would never expect to see these things in a whole lifetime.
[01:10.59]And there they were, things you'd only ever seen in books.
[01:12.90]So... Cezannes and... waterlilies... that Monet fellow...
[01:18.32]And, eh... and Degas... and, eh... Toulouse-Lautrecs and Van Goghs, and, eh...
[01:26.45]And then there was this one painting... a Seurat...
[01:32.63]Look, it's made of a sort of dots...
[01:37.50]Thousands, millions of dots...
[01:43.18]And then - I got the score!
[01:48.79]Talk about dots...
[01:50.37]Oh, so much to learn!
[01:52.22]And I have to learn to paint
[01:53.33]Paint sticks, paint dogs...
[01:55.35]Sorry, darling?... A baby?!
[01:59.17]When? How long?...
[02:01.99]But I've gotta paint hats!
[02:04.17]More red...
[02:06.28]Me, a father...
[02:08.39]And a little more red...
[02:09.85]And I have to improve my articulation
[02:12.32]Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue
[02:14.60]Even even... Good...
[02:16.59]And I have to rehearse my intonation
[02:19.73]Bumbum bum bumbumbum bumbum bum...
[02:23.54]And then I have to learn to count the beats
[02:25.37](Two three four)
[02:26.93]More red... What?
[02:28.93](One two three four)
[02:30.55]More blue...
[02:31.37]Two three four five - shit...
[02:33.59](...seven eight)
[02:34.28]More beer...
[02:35.50](Two three four five six seven eight)
[02:36.46]I don't care what we call it, I've gotta learn this song!
[02:38.41](One two three four five six seven eight)
[02:41.40]More light!
[02:41.95]And right down in my guts, looming ever closer...
[02:44.84][04:17.59]Color and light
[02:45.82]...was opening night
[02:47.97][04:20.37]There's only color and light
[02:49.40]Stephen Sondheim's what?
[02:51.68]Yellow and white
[02:53.30]In the building??!
[02:55.00]Just blue and yellow and white
[02:56.38]What if your baby comes on opening night?
[02:59.17]Look at the air, miss-
[03:00.98]See what I mean?
[03:03.44]Hello, Stephen. How are you?
[03:05.54]No, look over there, miss-
[03:08.11]That's done with green...
[03:09.96]He hates me... he hates me...
[03:11.93]Conjoined with orange
[03:18.15]I never gonna learn this
[03:19.68]Not in a million years...
[03:20.90]Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit...
[03:23.71]Oh bloody hell...
[03:25.79]Just look at it all, will you...
[03:28.40]Red red red red
[03:29.52][03:31.90]Red red orange
[03:32.61]Orange pick up blue
[03:33.45]Pick up red
[03:34.43]Pick up orange
[03:35.27]From the blue-green blue-green blue-green circle
[03:38.11]On the violet diagonal
[03:39.58]Di-ag-ag-ag-o-nal-nal-nal-nal
[03:42.21]Yellow comma yellow comma
[03:44.21]Numnum num numnumnum numnum num...
[03:47.79]Blue blue blue blue
[03:48.63]Blue still waiting
[03:49.77]Red that perfume
[03:50.62]Blue all night
[03:51.49]Blue-green the window shut
[03:52.75]Dut dut dut
[03:53.37]Dot Dot sitting
[03:54.18]Dot Dot waiting
[03:55.10]Dot Dot getting fat fat fat
[03:56.30]More yellow
[03:57.53]Dot Dot waiting to go
[03:58.30]Out out out
[03:59.88]No no no George
[04:00.88]Finish the hat finish the hat
[04:03.13]Have to finish the hat first
[04:04.16]Hat hat hat hat
[04:05.20]Hot hot hot it's hot in here...
[04:07.81]Sunday!
[04:18.53]I got till opening night
[04:21.86]But where is the baby?
[04:24.20]Purple and white
[04:25.70]The ****ing baby...
[04:27.12]And red and purple and white
[04:28.58]Carol is the size of a truck...
[04:31.40]Look at this glade, girls
[04:32.64]Call the cab!
[04:33.40]Your cool blue spot
[04:34.93]She's on the floor of the cab
[04:37.40]No, stay in the shade, girls
[04:39.13]Oh God
[04:40.90]It's getting hot
[04:43.32]It's getting-WAH!
[04:47.43]He's blue, he's blue!
[04:52.40]And they're blue...
[04:56.56]And it's warm inside his eyes
[05:01.68]And it's soft inside his eyes
[05:06.96]And you drown inside his eyes
[05:12.30]I could look at him forever...