A continuous blend of light, soothing & relaxing classics. [52], In its review of the 1989 London revival, the reviewer for The Guardian wrote that the "production also strikes me as infinitely superior to Harold Prince's 1975 version at the Adelphi. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte (Dame Diana Rigg) appear, too, things begin to get farcical (Send in the Clowns), and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united. [41], Virtually all of the music in the show is written in waltz meter (34 time). Madam Armfeldt's country estate is bathed in the golden glow of perpetual summer sunset at this high latitude ("Night Waltz One and Two"). It starred Judi Dench (Desiree), Siân Phillips (Madame Armfeldt), Joanna Riding (Anne Egerman), Laurence Guittard (Fredrik Egerman), Patricia Hodge (Countess Charlotte) and Issy van Randwyck (Petra). She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. Charlotte visits Anne and describes Fredrik's tryst with Desiree. A Little Night Music (Libretto) The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales[49] (whose opening chord is borrowed for the opening chord of the song "Liaisons"); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used. [32], Opera Australia presented the piece in Melbourne in May 2009, starring Sigrid Thornton as Desiree Armfeldt and Nancye Hayes as Madame Armfeldt. [38], The score for A Little Night Music presents performance challenges more often seen in operetta or light opera pieces than in standard musical comedy. Use the HTML below. Thus Dorothy Tutin as Desiree, the touring thesp eventually reunited with her quondam lover, is not the melting romantic of previous productions but a working mother with the sharpness of a hat-pin. This one's name being Pete Seltzer. She performs such songs as the title number, "Liza with a 'Z'" and "Son of a Preacher Man". Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party. Liz was a great star, not a singer though, just the wrong actress for the role she should never have been cast. Todos los programas de El musical online en RTVE.es A la Carta The setting is Sweden, around the year 1900. Barbara Sawyer (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark Sawyer (Henry Fonda), but he doesn't seem interested in meeting ... See full summary ». Fredrika tells her grandmother that she has watched carefully, but still has not seen the night smile. In 1997 an all-jazz version of the score was recorded by Terry Trotter. Upon learning that Fredrik has gone for eleven months without sex, she agrees to accommodate him as a favor for an old friend. Madam Armfeldt sits alone with Fredrika. [33] Opera Theatre of Saint Louis performed the musical in June 2010. The elderly woman reflects poignantly on her own checkered past, and wonders what happened to her refined "Liaisons". Shubert Theatre, Broadway - 25 February, 1973 (601 perfs) London Adelphi Theatre - 15 April, 1975 (406 perfs) The demands made on the singing cast are considerable; although the vocal demands of the role of Desiree are rather small, most of the other singing roles require strong, legitimately-trained voices with fairly wide ranges. A Little Night Music es un musical con música y letra de Stephen Sondheim y libreto de Hugh Wheeler. She has doubts of her femininity, her belief in love, and faith in herself. [45] "It is written in short phrases in order to be acted rather than sung ... tailor-made for Glynis Johns, who lacks the vocal power to sustain long phrases. [16][17] The official show album, which was recorded in January 2010, features both Doherty and Whittaker as Fredrika (on different songs). [24][25] Peters and Stritch extended their contracts until January 9, 2011, when the production closed with 20 previews and 425 regular performances. The 1978 film version features Elizabeth Taylor and Len Cariou. [27], Zarah Leander played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging (in 1975) as well as in the original Swedish staging in Stockholm in 1978 (here with Jan Malmsjö as Fredrik Egerman), performing "Send In The Clowns" and "Liaisons" in both stagings. Meanwhile, Petra tries to seduce a nervous and petulant Henrik. Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is thinking of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrick, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus Mittelheim (Laurence Guittard). [3][4][5][6], A US national tour began on February 26, 1974, at the Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, and ended on February 13, 1975, at the Shubert Theatre, Boston. The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor (Sir Peter Ustinov) of dubious sanity. View production, box office, & company info. With Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria. It was directed by Sean Mathias, with set design by Stephen Brimson Lewis, costumes by Nicky Gillibrand, lighting by Mark Henderson and choreography by Wayne McGregor. Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action...But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow. Gradually, their vocalizing becomes an overture blending fragments of "Remember", "Soon" and "The Glamorous Life", leading into the first "Night Waltz". The other characters enter waltzing, each uncomfortable with her partner. With Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525. It has moments of pleasure but overall a miss. Fredrika thinks about this, and decides that love, for all of its frustrations, "must be worth it". Charlotte relates this to the Count, who (much to her chagrin) decides to visit the Armfeldts uninvited. She is performing near Fredrik's home, and Fredrik brings Anne to see the play. Barnes, Clive, "The Theater:'A Little Night Music". He noted that "the real triumph belongs to Stephen Sondheim...the music is a celebration of 3/4 time, an orgy of plaintively memorable waltzes, all talking of past loves and lost worlds...There is a peasant touch here." Sondheim said: "As for the three songs ... going together well, I might as well confess. The production is "sparing on furniture and heavy on shadows", with "a scaled-down orchestra at lugubriously slowed-down tempos..." He goes on to write that "this somber, less-is-more approach could be effective were the ensemble plugged into the same rueful sensibility. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heaven, he using wisecracking and constant ... See full summary ». Desiree Armfeldt is a prominent and glamorous actress who is now reduced to touring in small towns. [30] The cast included both stage performers: Sally Ann Howes and George Lee Andrews as Desiree and Frederick and opera regular Regina Resnik as Madame Armfeldt (in 1991). Jean Simmons as Desiree Armfeldt, George Lee Andrews as Fredrik Egerman and Margaret Hamilton as Madame Armfeldt headed the cast.[7]. That night, as Fredrik remembers his past with Desiree, he sneaks out to see her; the two have a happy but strained reunion as they "Remember". Anne is shocked and saddened, but Charlotte explains that such is the lot of a wife, and love brings pain ("Every Day a Little Death"). Secrest, Meryle. A revival opened in the West End on October 6, 1989, at the Piccadilly Theatre, directed by Ian Judge, designed by Mark Thompson, and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast. The production ran for 144 performances, closing on February 17, 1990. A Little Night Music es una película dirigida por Harold Prince con Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold .... Año: 1977. It played there until September 15, 1973, then moved to the Majestic Theatre, on September 17, and closed there on August 3, 1974, after 601 performances and 12 previews. The successful Stockholm staging was directed by Stig Olin. Green, Kay. Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the "Night Waltz" theme ("Love Takes Time") and wrote an entirely new version of "The Glamorous Life", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical. After the Count and Countess leave, Fredrika and Madam Armfeldt discuss the chaos of the recent turns-of-events. 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