London's Sunday in the Park May Be Headed for Studio 54

London's hit production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George may find a home at Studio 54 next season, according to Variety. Although a spokesperson for the Roundabout Theatre Company would not confirm the story, Variety reports that the Broadway production is likely to begin rehearsals in December.

Director Sam Buntrock's high-tech Sunday originated at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in November 2005, then transferred to the West End. It has been nominated for six Olivier Awards, to be presented on February 18. London stars Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell are among the nominees; casting has not begun for the New York production.

Boyett Ostar, which specializes in London-New York transfers The History Boys, Coram Boy, got involved in the show when it moved to the West End and seems likely to be attached to the Roundabout version as well.

Sunday in the Park with George chronicles the personal and artistic life of French pointillist painter Georges Seurat, then jumps ahead in time to follow a fictional great-grandson of Seurat in the contemporary American art world. The original Broadway production, starring Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters and directed by Lapine, opened at the Booth Theatre on May 2, 1984, and ran for 604 performances, winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Reports of the new Sunday production came amid much discussion of a possible Broadway transfer of the Encores! presentation of Sondheim's Follies, which attracted a Who's Who of the theatrical world to its five performances at City Center. At the final performance on February 12, the composer—seated across the aisle from Lapine and one row in front of Peters and Joel Grey—could be seen responding enthusiastically to director Casey Nicholaw's staging of the show.