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
This song highlights the harsh criticism that George receives from his fellow contemporary artists. Jules is a more successful artist criticise him for and a friend of George. He and his wife make fun of Georges work and almost criticises him for taking risks. This introduces the idea of George bein...
[JULES, spoken]
Ahh...
[YVONNE, spoken]
Ooh...
[JULES, spoken]
Mmm...
[YVONNE, spoken]
Oh, dear.
[JULES, spoken]
Oh, my.
[YVONNE, spoken]
Oh, my dear.
[JULES]
It has no presence
[YVONNE]
No passion
[JULES]
No life
It's neither pastoral
Nor lyrical
[YVONNE]
You don't suppose that it's satirical?
[JULES, spoken]
Mmm? Oh...
(sung)
Just density
Without intensity—
[YVONNE]
No life
(spoken)
Boys with their clothes off...
[JULES, spoken]
I must paint a factory next!
[YVONNE]
It's so mechanical
[JULES]
Methodical
[YVONNE]
It might be in some dreary
Socialistic peri-
Odical
[JULES, spoken]
Good.
[YVONNE]
So drab, so cold
[JULES]
And so controlled
[JULES & YVONNE]
No life
[JULES, spoken]
His touch is too deliberate, somehow.
[YVONNE, spoken]
The dog.
[JULES]
These things get hung—
[YVONNE, spoken]
Mmm.
[JULES]
And then they're gone
[YVONNE, spoken]
Ahhh.
(sung)
Of course he's young—
[JULES, spoken]
Hmm?
[YVONNE]
But getting on
[JULES, spoken]
Oh.
(sung)
All mind, no heart
No life in his art
[YVONNE]
No life in his life!
[JULES & YVONNE]
No—
Life
No Life was written by Stephen Sondheim.
No Life was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Charles Kimbrough & Dana Ivey released No Life on Sun Jul 01 1984.