Trivial Pursuit #106

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Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:25pm

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE is one of STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S true masterpieces, with a wonderful book by JAMES LAPINE. It opened May 2, 1984, at the Booth Theatre and ran for 604 performances.

In SUNDAY, Georges and George struggle to connect to their respective acquaintances, friends and lovers.

In one famous ACT ONE song, George reveals why this is, why painters struggle so much to connect with others.

Why is this? What makes Georges and painters unable to connect?

A very obscure Trivial Pursuit today, so GOOD LUCK!!!

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:26pm

They're obsessed with "Finishing the Hat" or their art, instead of nurturing their relationships.

Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:28pm

So close, so very close.

Look a little further...

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:33pm

Hint #1: Outer _____

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:34pm

Because he's too demanding of his muse (move the arm and the bustle higher) but he's too rude and only says "please"?

"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

Updated On: 4/14/05 at 04:34 PM

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:35pm

Wrong Act One song, Tiff, but a great attempt!!!

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:36pm

Your passive-aggressiveness is NOT appreciated. Just give it to me straight. (Well, as "straight" as you can.)

~A sore loser.

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:37pm

He's too consumed with color and light?

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:38pm

Nice try, though it looks like you're going to have to scroll through a few more songs to get to this one. Yes, Google is your friend...

#10

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:39pm

Who? Me? Google?

*huffs off....*

*...to search engine*

#11

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:41pm

Hint #2: The eyes are the _______ to the soul

#12

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:42pm

He watches the rest of the world through a window while he finishes the hat!

#13

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:43pm

And Tiff has ALMOST got it!!!

The pertinent word being ALMOST!!!

#14

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:45pm

This is the worst climax ever.

#15

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:45pm

Studying a face . . . stepping back to look at a face
Leaves a little space in the way, like a window

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#16

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:46pm

*slump*

Congratulations, Mister Matt.

#17

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:50pm

WELL, TIFF got SO CLOSE that I'm going to have to award a TIE!!!

YES, Georges proclaims that to you must distance yourself to be a good painter, and yet by distancing yourself, you fail to connect.

"Studying a face,
Stepping back to look at a face
Leaves a little space in the way like a window,
But to see-
It's the only way to see."

For your bonus points, and you are both welcome to answer:

Dot leaves Georges for Louis for many reasons, including because, "You can't eat paintings," and "Louis' always so pleasant, Louis' always so fair."

Another reason is much more...so to speak...gratifying. What is it?

#18

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:52pm

It's okay. Mister Matt gets it.

*shleps away to listen to BKLYN instead...stupid Sondwho?*

#19

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:52pm

c'mon, Paradox, just squint and my answer is correct. Like with Seurat's work, change your focus and the picture emerges differently. i'm close enough.

#20

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:54pm

He "kneads her" in bed.

#21

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:54pm

OKAY.

My obscure question can be taken in many ways. ALL of your questions are acceptable, though MISTER MATT'S was the best.

TX, let's make this twosome a threesome!

#22

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:55pm

He kneads me. Like dough, Georges....

mef was not invited into the bonus round

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#23

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:58pm

WELL, it's a FOURSOME!!!

MEFan! You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!!

Louis can "make the bread rise" so to speak...

CONGRATULATIONS, all FOUR of you!!!

Your Prizes: An all-expenses paid trip to late 19th-Century France, and every Sunday you will visit the Island of La Grande Jatte, to be painted by a highly underappreciated and obsessive artist.

You are to be preserved for ever in a series of dots. But don't worry about bringing warm clothes, it's very HOT UP HERE...

GOOD NIGHT, FOLKS!!!

#24

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 5:01pm

FINISHING THE HAT

GEORGES
Mademoiselles...
(turns a page)
You end me, pal...
(turns another page)
Second bottle...
Ah, she looks for me...
Bonnet flapping...
Yapping...
Ruff!...
Chicken...
Pastry...
Yes, she looks for me-good.
Let her look for me to tell me why she left me-
As I always knew she would.
I had thought she understood.
They have never understood,
And no reason that they should.
But if anybody could...
Finishing the hat,
How you have to finish the hat.
How you watch the rest of the world
From a window
While you finish the hat.

Mapping out a sky.
What you feel like, planning a sky.
What you feel when voices that come
Through the window
Go
Until they distance and die,
Until there's nothing but sky
And how you're always turning back too late
From the grass or the stick
Or the dog or the light,
How the kind of woman willing to wait's
Not the kind that you want to find waiting
To return you to the night,
Dizzy from the height,
Coming from the hat,
Studying the hat,
Entering the world of the hat,
Reaching through the world of the hat
Like a window,
Back to this one from that.

Studying a face,
Stepping back to look at a face
Leaves a little space in the way like a window,
But to see-
It's the only way to see.

And when the woman that you wanted goes,
You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give."
But the women who won't wait for you knows
That, however you live,
There's a part of you always standing by,
Mapping out the sky,
Finishing a hat...
Starting on a hat..
Finishing a hat...
(shows sketch to Fifi)
Look, I made a hat...

Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

#25

re: Trivial Pursuit #106

Posted: 4/14/05 at 5:02pm

EVERYBODY LOVES LOUIS

DOT
(looking in the direction of George's departure from the park)
Hello, George...
Where did you go, George?
I know you're near, George.
I caught your eyes, George.
I want your ear, George.
I've a surprise, George...

Everybody loves Louis,
Louis' simple and kind.
Everybody loves Louis,
Louis' lovable
Seems we never know, do we,
Who we're going to find?
And Louis the baker is not what I had in mind.
But...

Louis' really an artist:
Louis' cakes are an art.
Louis isn't the smartest-
Louis' popular.
Everybody loves Louis,
Louis bakes from the heart...

The bread, George.
I mean the bread, George.
And then in bed, George...
I mean he kneads me-
I mean like dough, George...
Hello, George...

Louis' always so pleasant,
Louis' always so fair.
Louis makes you feel present,
Louis' generous.
That's the thing about Louis
Louis always is "there."
Louis' thoughts are not hard to follow,
Louis' art is not hard to swallow.

Not that Louis' perfection-
That's what makes him ideal.
Hardly anything worth objection:
Louis drinks a bit,
Louis blinks a bit.
Louis makes a connection,
That's the thing that you feel...
We lose things.
And then we choose things.
And there are Louis's
And there are Georges-
Well, Louis's
And George.
But George has George,
And I need-
Someone-
Louis-
(Louis gives her a pastry and leaves.)
Everybody loves Louis,
Him as well as his cakes.
Everybody loves Louis,
Me included, George.
Not afraid to be gooey,
Louis sells what he makes.
Everybody gets along him.
That's the trouble, nothing's wrong with him.

Louis has to bake his way,
George can only bake his...
(bites into the pastry)
Louis it is.
(Dot goes off.)

Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

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