Mandy Patinkin’s singing (in the role of George Seurat) on the original cast recording of Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 truly changed my life. I opened up to Broadway musicals generally because of his voice, and that recording in general. I established then, and maintain to this day, a standard for Broadway vocals, for sure, but vocals in general: if someone isn't as original as Patinkin was in Sunday, if someone doesn't own the music the way Patinkin does, then I'm not so interested. I walked around U of T campus for a couple of solid years playing thi cassette on my Sony Walkman (from a very small repertoire of cassettes, and unrivalled in terms of holding my attention). I wouldn’t actually see a performance of Sunday for 25 years after first hearing it, a quite amazing production at the Shaw Festival in 2009.