Sondheim's "George" musical hits Paris The most famous living musical comedy composer, Stephen Sondheim, brings his 1980s musical "Sunday in the Park with George", based on a work by French painter Georges Seurat, to Paris. The musical is being performed in the original English, a rarity on the French stage. SOUNDBITES of the show's musical director, David Charles Abelle, who says that French performers would not have been up to par. This completes VID507334_EN with excerpts of the show.