Tomorrow the Birds Will Sing!

Linktober 2025 Day 10: Tunic

Jack Wolfe as George Seurat (Sondheim on Sondheim concert)

that however you live / there's a part of you always standing by / mapping out the sky / finishing a hat

Their George, like the real Seurat, is both enraptured by the world around him and distant from it, compelled to organize life into order, design, composition, tone, form, symmetry, balance… Sunday understands what Seurat himself understood: that true creation is not just about feeling, but about discipline; not just about beauty, but about control. To look closely at La Grande Jatte is to see not only what Seurat saw, but how he saw it: with precision, with patience, and with a strange, stubborn faith in form. And to revisit it through Sunday in the Park with George is to be reminded that what lasts in art, and in life, is not only the moment captured, but the care it took to capture it: bit by bit, dot by dot. La Grande Jatte is a meditation on attention itself. And for all its stillness, it continues to move us.

source: Sondheim hub

Jack Wolfe and Jak Malone in Sondheim on Sondheim

you might just be the best thing that has happened to me / so far / of course not much very good's ever happened to me / so far

Addison and Hollis are wealthy, successful, surrounded by people who want something from them. They are also deeply in love. “You are the best thing that ever has happened to me / You are,” says Addison. Then he adds, “Okay then, one of the best things that’s happened to me.” His self-correction is gratitude learning its own boundaries. Not hyperbole, not fantasy, but negotiated precision, with a twinkle in its eye. Hollis matches him: “You might just be the best thing that has happened to me / So far.” Those hedges, that honesty… These men have lived enough to know that claiming certainty about best or forever is a category error. What they can thank each other for is what they can name: the boat, the beach, the moon, the decision to stay home. Theirs is a gratitude that knows its own scale, neither inflating the gift nor refusing it.

source: Sondheim hub