Enjoy this special video featuring Jake Gyllenhaal singing Finishing the Hat, directed by Cary Fukunaga. Previews begin Saturday. #SundayintheParkwithGeorge
My uncle was the french horn that you hear in the original cast recording. He both begins and ends the musical. He died in 2012. I think he would have been pleased with this revival.
I"m so sorry for your loss, but what a lovely and amazing legacy. I will think of your uncle when I listen to the original cast recording (which I do so often).
Wow! As a horn player myself having played many different shows, I am blown away by his performance! It’s a great part! I hope to play this show someday.
@@TheRealPattyD well, Groban is doing it, so I’m sure Gyllenhaal could as well. Though I’m extremely excited for a big, lush ‘Sweeney’ revival (which is what it seems we’re getting)
Jake Gyllenhaal, an unexpected broadway treasure whose performance in this role brought the original actor to tears (who was Mandy Patinkin, an unexpected cinema treasure)
I had just had a baby and wasn't able to get down to NYC to see this amazing production. I'm still a little sad about that, but the kid was worth it. I hope they filmed it. Jake channels Mandy's performance beautifully while still making it his own.
I had the great fortune to see Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Asford in "Sunday in the park with George at Hudson theatre. I came from Turkey such a short time to meet them personally at the stage door and flew back to istanbul after the show. They were kind when I greet them. The cast and orchestra were magnificient. Jake and Anneleigh brought down the house. I am also huge fan of Jake's works. He literally nailed the audiences. The show was so intense. it was the happiest day of the year for me. Jake was phenomenal as usual. I will never forget what I have been going through. I got mesmerized by Jake and Annaleig's great voices. All audiences were moved and some of them cried too.
I’m actually mad that all this talent was given to Jake Gyllenhaal, in combination with him being the gorgeous person he is with the cutest personality....
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imagine being as succesful as jake gyllenhaal... like he's been in movies since around the 1990's,, then he got into musicals and even made it into the movie far from home- *alexa play succesful by ariana grande*
Dear Jake and Annaleigh and cast......we saw Sunday on our 23 anniversary . My partner's name is George. I saw the original with Bernadette and Mandy twice on Broadway (I was about 22 so you do the math in term of what that cost me). I've seen it about 4 times since then. I have now seen the best version (you even made what I refer to as "the dog song" work). I told George after we left the theater I will never see it again live. I can't hope to see a better version. Simply. thank you all.
I very much agree with you. I only watched Mandy and Bernadette's performance on DVD, but I watched this new ensemble live, and they were amazing! I absolutely loved it!
damn i already knew he is an amazing actor, a witty guy with a chaotic energy and now I find he can sing so amazingly?! Where do I find people like him XD
That little laugh and silence after the number ends is so true. When you make a beautiful piece of music with someone and then when you finish the magic just makes you speechless
Sunday in the Park with George will always be one of my favorite musicals. Although I am a scientist, I see bit of myself in George. The obsession with work, compulsion to make things work, the inner turmoil when scrambling to find something novel, all the while not taking care of myself and ignoring the world around me including the people I truly care about. The lack of appreciation in my own work, not wanting to give myself credit for the work whether it is a success or failure, and the constant fear of being judged. These all hit home pretty hard for me and I alway cry at the end, when George once again learns to give himself room to create without being stuck in his own head. The messages are so eloquently communicated through songs and book. I can see why some people will hate it, but I think that if one takes the time for introspection, they will find that the messages are very relatable to almost anyone.
listening to this for the second time in a row I can really hear how Sondheim was using the repetitive phrasing to show how George was obsessing over being left, and his obsessive nature in general. The brief times when he breaks out of that--noticing the window, are also breaks in the repetitive melody that provide moments of space in his mental state.
Musical theatre has never really been a big thing for me, but since Sondheim died and I reheard his Desert Island Discs on BBC radio with Sue Lawley, I am absolutely compelled by his creative process. One of his pieces was the Left Hand Piano Concerto by Ravel and you just know he listened to it a lot while he was composing, he features chord progressions from it in so many of his pieces. I know next to very little about music but it made me really excited to know more about his work and now I can't get enough!!!! Mandy Patinkin is impassioned in this role and has a very full and mature voice. Jake Gyllenhaal is more surprising and surprised by what he is singing, which is very appropriate to this particular song, extremely engaging. I haven't heard or seen his full performance but it certainly makes me want to. Getting to hear all the various interpretations of Sondheim's work has been fascinating and you know there are some more great versions yet to come. They won't have the hand of the maestro on them personally, but there are enough knowledgeable enthusiasts out there to make a great go of it. Here's hoping...
Lyrics: 0:40 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 How 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 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 woman 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, Look I made a hat Where there never was a hat
We saw the show last week and it is the only Sondheim show that I hadn't ever seen I saw the PBS video of this production with the original cast. I was just so moved by this cast and the production. The leads were outstanding and the show is just so beautiful, a Sondheim gem. Jake and Annaleigh, you were outstanding.
Damn, Jake! I didn't think anyone could Manny Patinkin's intensity, but you come pretty close! I wouldn't be at all mad if you took off a year from acting on screen to return to the role of George.
BEAUTIFUL reference at the beginning with the random guy going up the stairs. Right as the Piano comes in before he sings the line "Finishing The Hat" for the first time the dude with the jacket says hello, but his form of doing so is by twirling his finger around his head a bit. It's a term called TIPPING THE HAT, I think. WHICH IS GENUIS.
