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T: @SundayWestEnd | I: @sundaywestend | F: /SundayWestEnd and Annaleigh Ashford in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE By and James Lapine Directed by Sarna Lapine

 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND TONY AWARD® WINNER ANNALEIGH ASHFORD TO STAR IN STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND JAMES LAPINE’S PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE AT THE FROM 11th JUNE 2020 FOR 12 WEEKS

 FIRST SEEN AT CITY CENTER IN 2016, FOLLOWED BY A SOLD-OUT RUN AT HUDSON THEATER ON BROADWAY IN 2017, TICKETS FOR THE WEST END LIMITED ENGAGEMENT WILL GO ON SALE ON MONDAY 17TH JUNE AT 5.00PM

[Photo credit Matthew Murphy] Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Riva Marker and Jeanine Tesori in association with Center are delighted to announce that tickets go on sale today for a strictly limited season of Sunday in the Park with George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford and directed by Sarna Lapine, at the Savoy Theatre. Preview performances will begin on 11th June 2020. Official opening night to be confirmed. Sondheim and Lapine’s masterpiece follows painter Georges Seurat (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the months leading up to the completion of his most famous painting – A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Consumed by his need to “finish the hat”, Seurat alienates the French bourgeoisie, spurns his fellow artists, and neglects his lover Dot (Annaleigh Ashford), not realising that his actions will reverberate for the next 100 years. This beautiful production began at , it then transferred for a sold-out limited season at Hudson Theater on Broadway where it was met with universal critical and public acclaim.

Jake Gyllenhaal said: “Performing Sunday in the Park with George with the brilliant Annaleigh Ashford was one of the greatest joys of my career, I've also deeply missed the West End and so to be bringing Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical there alongside Annaleigh is both humbling and thrilling.”

Annaleigh Ashford said: "Sharing the masterpiece that is Sunday in the Park with George with audiences, has been one of the greatest pleasures of my artistic life. It is an honour to play Dot again with genius Jake Gyllenhaal and to tell this story of children and art to the great city of .” James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim said "We are thrilled that a London audience will get to see the recent Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George with Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford reprising their extraordinary performances. We also look forward to seeing them joined by a terrific British ."

Sunday in the Park with George was originally produced on Broadway by Ambassador Theatre Group, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Caiola Productions, Jeffrey Finn, Jere Harris and Darren Deverna, J/K/R/S, Claire-Bridget Kenwright, LD Entertainment, Benjamin Lowy Productions, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Jeanine Tesori, Riva Marker, in association with New York City Center (Arlene Shuler, President & CEO), and Adam Speers – Executive Producer for ATG.

The official opening night and full casting will be announced in due course. Jake Gyllenhaal will be appearing in Sea Wall / A Life alongside Tom Sturridge for a limited engagement at Hudson Theater on Broadway from July 26th to September 29th. The 2017 Broadway Cast Recording featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford is available to buy, download and stream now. https://lnk.to/SundayLondonPR

-ENDS- For further information please contact The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 Ben Chamberlain, Lewis Jenkins, Hannah Barnett Leveson

LISTINGS

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

Savoy Theatre Savoy Court, London WC2R 0ET First performance: 11th June 2020 at 7.30pm Final performance: 5th September 2020 at 7.30pm

Performance schedule: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm

Box office details www.sundayinthepark.co.uk 0844 871 7687 Prices from £25 (preview prices available)

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NOTES TO EDITORS

JAKE GYLLENHAAL (George). Broadway: Constellations ( nomination), Sunday in the Park with George. Off-Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life (Drama League Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Little Shop of Horrors (Encores! Off-Center), If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award nominations). West End: This Is Our Youth (Evening Standard Theatre Award). Films include Velvet Buzzsaw, Wildlife, The Sisters Brothers, Stronger, Okja, Nocturnal Animals (BAFTA nomination), Nightcrawler (Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG nominations), Brokeback Mountain (Academy Award nomination and BAFTA Award), Southpaw, Prisoners, Demolition, Enemy, Everest, End of Watch, Jarhead, Zodiac, Proof, The Good Girl, Moonlight Mile, Lovely and Amazing, October Sky, Source Code, Love & Other Drugs (Golden Globe nomination), Brothers and Donnie Darko. Upcoming: Spider Man: Far From Home, Sea Wall / A Life (Broadway), Sunday in the Park with George (West End). Sea Wall/A Life marks Gyllenhaal’s third collaboration with playwright Nick Payne.

ANNALEIGH ASHFORD (Dot). Broadway: Sunday in the Park With George, You Can’t Take It With You (Tony Award, , and Outer Critics Circle Award), Sylvia, (Clarence Derwent Award, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), , , the Musical. Off Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George (New York City Center), Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park), (), (Second Stage). Betty on Showtime’s critically acclaimed . Other TV/Film: Late Night, Annaleigh Ashford Live from Lincoln Center , Bad Education, Unbelievable, : Versace, Second Act, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, , The Big C, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, , Unicorn Store, , Better Off Single, Top Five, Rachel Getting Married, Frozen. Her critically acclaimed solo show, Annaleigh Ashford: Live at 54 Below was released by Broadway Records.

SARNA LAPINE is a director based in New York. Recent credits include: The Rape of Lucretia (Boston Lyric Opera), Kate Hamill’s Little Women (Primary Stages), Noises Off (Two River Theater), You Are Here (Goodspeed), Buyer and Cellar (Bucks County Playhouse), Dirty Dancing: The Musical (National Tour), Frost/Nixon (Bay Street Theater), and the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. Upcoming productions include: Bernhardt/Hamlet (Geffen Playhouse) and Annie Get Your Gun (Bay Street Theater). Additional credits include: Sondheim on Sondheim for the Boston Pops and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Associate Director, The National Theatre’s War Horse (North America & Japan Tour). Director, national tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific and was resident director on the first national South Pacific tour. On the concert front, Lapine has developed and directed projects for Encores! (City Center), the Boston Pops, Umeda Arts Theatre in Japan, the 92 Street Y and the Bucks County Playhouse, and has co-conceived and directed critically acclaimed cabaret shows for Paolo Szot (Café Carlyle), and the actress Emily Bergl (54Below & Café Carlyle). Select directing credits: Other Desert Cities (Theatre Aspen) Henry Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play, Tribes (Segal Centre of Montreal), Hope and Gravity by Michael Hollinger (Creede Repertory Theater), Sunday in the Park with George (Short North Stage), Waiting for Lefty, and The Year of Magical Thinking (Intiman Theatre).

Lapine has directed readings at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, BMI, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop, The LARK, Stella Adler, The Araca Group, Boomerang Theatre, and Dixon Place, among others. She has been a teaching artist at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and Fordham University.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER (Arlene Shuler, President & CEO) has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943. A landmark 75th Anniversary Season (2018 – 2019) paid tribute to this rich history while celebrating the institution’s singular role in the arts today. For over 25 years, City Center’s Tony-honored Encores! series has been “an essential New York institution” (). In 2013, City Center launched the Encores! Off-Center series, which brings today’s innovative artists into contact with groundbreaking musicals from the past. Dance has also been integral to the theater’s mission from the start and programs like the annual Fall for Dance Festival, with all tickets $15, remain central to City Center’s identity. Home to a roster of renowned national and international companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (City Center’s Principal Dance Company) and Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City Center is Manhattan’s first performing arts center, founded with the mission of making the best in music, theater, and dance accessible to all audiences. That mission continues today through dynamic education and community engagement programs which bring the performing arts to over 10,000 New York City students, teachers, and families each year and the expansion of the theatrical experience to include art exhibitions, pre-show talks, studio events, and master classes that offer an up-close look at the work of the great theater and dance artists of our time. NYCityCenter.org