Technology Amps Up Musical Revival

New York, NY —

The Tony Awards are this weekend. And the revival of Steven Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park with George has a pile of nominations. It’s about the painter Georges Seurat and his giant masterpiece, called A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Seurat shook up the painting world in the 1880s by using just little dots of paint - the new technique of pointillism. The revival of the Broadway show is shaking up the theatre world with its reliance on video projections and other high-tech effects to tell the story. One of its Tony nominations is for Best Scenic Design of a Musical. Jocelyn Gonzales talked to two of the designers.