A Little Night Music
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 13, 2009
Closed Jan 9, 2011
Opened Dec 13, 2009
Closed Jan 9, 2011
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Running Time:
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Nominated for 4 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical.
The legendary Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch and Olivier Award-nominee Alexander Hanson star in this Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning masterpiece A Little Night Music, directed by Tony Award-winner Trevor Nunn.
Based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, A Little Night Music is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, long simmering passions and a taste of love's endless possibilities. Hailed as witty and wildly romantic, the story centers on the elegant actress Desirée Armfeldt and the spider's web of sensuality, intrigue and desire that surrounds her.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
In Trevor Nunn's mostly effective Broadway revival of the Tony- Award-winning Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical,
A Little Night Music, now at the Walter Kerr Theatre, Catherine Zeta-Jones is even more beautiful in set-and-costume designer David Farley's Edwardian frocks and in the creamy flesh than she is on screen. Although her stage technique is still a bit rusty, and the role of frustrated actress Desiree Armfeldt is undoubtedly more complex than the song-and-dance parts she played in her earlier career, she does well by the play's pathos and wit. Wait for her to deliver the line, "And this is my daughter." And wait, especially, for "Send in the Clowns," which reduces her (and perh[...]
Reviewed by
David Finkle on Dec 14, 2009
What are other members saying?
Never give the audience a chance to look at their watches!
I finally saw A little night music last night. It was okay but not great.
The acting and singing were good overall with one exception in Elaine Stritch who could not remember her lines all night. Even worse, she seems to have a hearing problem because someone in the pit who told her the line, "Passion and the Arts", said it so loudly that I could hear it all the way in the last row of the Mezzanine!
The show was supposed to end at 10:50. I left at 11 pm while Stritch was trying a second time to remember a stanza and was trying to get the 12 year old actor to help her. It was painful to watch.
Besides Stritch, the direction was weak in the pacing department. They could have cut ten minutes of pauses that would have made the 3 hours feel shorter. never give the audience a chance to look at their watches! by the time Bernadette Peters sang the big song, "Send in the clowns", I was looking at my watch for the tenth time.
The ideal casting would have been Peters and Landsbury!
Reviewed by bbraat
on Thursday, Jan 6th, 2011
Bernadette Peters is a shining star
Im going to give away my age--I saw this on the road when it was new and fresh, starring I think Jean Simmons as Desiree. I skipped the Zeta-Jones version because I couldnt imagine her singing "Send in the Clowns." When Bernadette Peters took over the role of Desiree, I couldnt resist seeing her in the part. She adds another gem to her Sondheim crown, and her "Send in the Clowns" is a show-stopper, a heart-rending, heartfelt rendition both totally true and totally wonderful. I should say a word about Elaine Strich, whose voice in long gone, miles from her role in "Company." Shes an icon best viewed in fond remembrance, but well suited to the part she played. I doubt Lansbury was any better. A great night of musical theatre.
Reviewed by cwpnewpaltz
on Thursday, Nov 11th, 2010
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Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch, have now replaced Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, respectively, in Trevor Nunn's boutique revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music at the Walter Kerr Theatre, and the results are simply stunning. These veteran actresses are giving the kind of extraordinary performances that should ensure audiences will take a first -- or second or third -- look at this undisputed classic musical comedy.
Peters, absent from the Broadway stage since the 2003 Gypsy revival, makes a triumphal return as Desiree Armfeldt, the actress wearying of playing Ibsen on the road. She brilliantly shows the signs of that gathering tedium -- just a[...]