White, a blank page or canvas

The challenge: To bring order to the whole

Through design,

Composition,

Balance,

Light,

And harmony.

"Sunday In The Park With George" by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim.

And I got to play George. George Seurat.

But, ahm, I knew nothing about painting.

So Carol, my wife, and I went off to Paris to the Musée d'Orsay to find his paintings.

We turned up at this, eh, amazing building,

and, eh, we went in and -

Look, if you come from where I come from you would never expect to see these things in a whole lifetime.

And there they were, things you'd only ever seen in books.

So... Cezannes and... waterlilies... that Monet fellow...

And, eh... and Degas... and, eh... Toulouse-Lautrecs and Van Goghs, and, eh...

And then there was this one painting... a Seurat...

Look, it's made of a sort of dots...

Thousands, millions of dots...

And then - I got the score!

Talk about dots...

Oh, so much to learn!

And I have to learn to paint

Paint sticks, paint dogs...

Sorry, darling?... A baby?!

When? How long?...

But I've gotta paint hats!

More red...

Me, a father...

And a little more red...

And I have to improve my articulation

Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue

Even even... Good...

And I have to rehearse my intonation

Bumbum bum bumbumbum bumbum bum...

And then I have to learn to count the beats

(Two three four)

More red... What?

(One two three four)

More blue...

Two three four five - shit...

(...seven eight)

More beer...

(Two three four five six seven eight)

I don't care what we call it, I've gotta learn this song!

(One two three four five six seven eight)

More light!

And right down in my guts, looming ever closer...

Color and light

...was opening night

There's only color and light

Stephen Sondheim's what?

Yellow and white

In the building??!

Just blue and yellow and white

What if your baby comes on opening night?

Look at the air, miss-

See what I mean?

Hello, Stephen. How are you?

No, look over there, miss-

That's done with green...

He hates me... he hates me...

Conjoined with orange

I never gonna learn this

Not in a million years...

Shit **** **** **** **** **** **** shit...

Oh bloody hell...

Just look at it all, will you...

Red red red red

Red red orange

Orange pick up blue

Pick up red

Pick up orange

From the blue-green blue-green blue-green circle

On the violet diagonal

Di-ag-ag-ag-o-nal-nal-nal-nal

Yellow comma yellow comma

Numnum num numnumnum numnum num...

Blue blue blue blue

Blue still waiting

Red that perfume

Blue all night

Blue-green the window shut

Dut dut dut

Dot Dot sitting

Dot Dot waiting

Dot Dot getting fat fat fat

More yellow

Dot Dot waiting to go

Out out out

No no no George

Finish the hat finish the hat

Have to finish the hat first

Hat hat hat hat

Hot hot hot it's hot in here...

Sunday!

I got till opening night

But where is the baby?

Purple and white

The ****ing baby...

And red and purple and white

Carol is the size of a truck...

Look at this glade, girls

Call the cab!

Your cool blue spot

She's on the floor of the cab

No, stay in the shade, girls

Oh God

It's getting hot

It's getting-WAH!

He's blue, he's blue!

And they're blue...

And it's warm inside his eyes

And it's soft inside his eyes

And you drown inside his eyes

I could look at him forever...