Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George

"“Art isn’t easy” is a lyric in Stephen Sondheim’s song “Putting It Together,” from the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical he wrote with James Lapine, about pointillistic painter Georges Seurat. And that point is made over and over in Lapine’s remarkable book of the same title. Part memoir and part oral history, Lapine chronicles the creation of this landmark musical, with brutal honesty. While the collaboration was ultimately successful, the birthing process was often painful, as conversations in the book reveal. The book is truly a must-have for anyone interested in theater and how it’s put together."