Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin
Charles Kimbrough & Dana Ivey
Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin
Melanie Vaughan, Mary D’Arcy, Barbara Bryne, Judith Moore & William Parry
Original Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George & Mandy Patinkin
Bernadette Peters
Mandy Patinkin
Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin
Barbara Bryne & Mandy Patinkin
Original Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George & Mandy Patinkin
Original Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George
Original Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George & Mandy Patinkin
Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin
Original Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George & Mandy Patinkin & Bernadette Peters
After Georges Seurat’s neglected love interest, Dot, gloats about her new lover and the other characters exit the park with their own partners and situations, George reflects on his results from the day and muses about the troubles of being devoted to making art.
The song is often assumed to be aut...
[GEORGE]
Mademoiselles...
You and me, pal...
Second bottle...
Ah, she looks for me...
Bonnet flapping...
Yapping...
Ruff!...
Chicken...
Pastry...
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
What 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's
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
Finishing the Hat was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Finishing the Hat was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Mandy Patinkin released Finishing the Hat on Sun Jul 01 1984.
In Look, I Made a Hat, Sondheim writes:
If the songs “Good Thing Going” and “Opening Doors” in Merrily We Roll Along are personal to me in that they reflect actual experiences I’ve had, “Finishing the Hat” reflects an emotional experience shared by everybody to some degree or other, but more keenly...