Katie Couric, anchor of CBS Evening News chatted with Angela Lansbury on Sunday about why she's back on Broadway in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, how she's not slowing down with age (84!) and more.
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Angela Lansbury has enjoyed a career without precedent; spanning more than half-a-century, as a star of movies, a 5-time Tony Award-winning actress, and star of "Murder, She Wrote", the longest running detective drama series in television history. She has hosted (or co-hosted) more Tony Awards telecasts than any other individual. She is in the Theatre Hall of Fame; received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts; named a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II; member of the TV Hall of Fame; recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been nominated for 18 Emmy Awards. She has won 6 Golden Globe Awards and nominated for an additional 8. She was presented with the National Medal of the Arts and was a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor. She is co-starring on Broadway this season in the musical "A Little Night Music".
Performances began on Tuesday, November 24th, for the first Broadway revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC starring Academy Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, five-time Tony Award®-winner Angela Lansbury and Olivier Award-nominee Alexander Hanson. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Tony Award®-winner Trevor Nunn, opens on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desirée Armfeldt, Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt, Alexander Hanson as Fredrik Egerman, Aaron Lazar as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, Erin Davie as Countess Charlotte Malcolm, Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra, Hunter Ryan Herdlickaas Henrik Egerman. The cast also includes Stephen R. Buntrock,Bradley Dean, Katherine Leigh Doherty, Marissa McGowan, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Keaton Whittaker,Karen Murphy, Erin Stewart, Kevin Vortmann.
Alexander Hanson is appearing with the support of Actors' Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' EquityAssociation for its assistance to this production.
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.
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