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 - featuring a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler - originally opened in 1973 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre and ran for 601 performances. Produced and directed by Harold Prince, the production garnered six Tony Awards® including Best Musical and Best Original Score. The Sondheim score features one of the composer's best-known songs, "Send in the Clowns," as well as "Every Day a Little Death," "The Miller's Son" and "A Weekend in the Country."
Trevor Nunn's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC debuted to critical acclaim at London'sMenier Chocolate Factory in November 2008 and subsequently transferred to the West End where it played a successful limited engagement through July 25, 2009 at the Garrick Theatre.The creative team for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC includes Lynne Page (Choreography), Caroline Humphris (Musical Supervision), David Farley (Set & Costume Design), Hartley T A Kemp(Lighting Design), Dan Moses Shreier and Gareth Owen (Sound Design), Paul Huntley (Wig Design), Jason Carr (Orchestrations) and Tom Murray (Musical Direction). A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is produced on Broadway by Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh,Richard Frankel, The Menier Chocolate Factory, Roger Berlind, David Babani, Sonia FriedmanProductions, Andrew Fell, Daryl Roth/Jane Bergère, Harvey Weinstein/Raise the Roof 3, Beverly Bartner/Dancap Productions, Inc., Nica Burns/Max Weitzenhoffer, Eric Falkenstein/Anna Czekaj, Jerry Frankel/Ronald Frankel, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer.
Tickets for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, online at Telecharge.com or in person at theWalter Kerr Theatre box office (219 West 48th Street). For A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC group sales, contact Theatre Direct International at 212-541-8457 x 2, or outside the NY metro area at 1-800-BROADWAY x 2. Tickets on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays range in price from $52 to $132. Tickets on Friday, Saturday & Sunday range in price from $57 to $137.Performances run: Nov. 24 - Dec. 12: Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm; Sunday at 3pm. Beginning Dec. 15: Tuesday at 7pm; Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm; Wednesday & Saturday at 2pm; Sunday at 3pm. There will be no performance on Nov. 26, Dec. 24 or Dec. 31; Added performances on Nov. 27 at 2pm, Dec. 27 at 2pm & 7pm, Dec. 28 at 8pm. For more information visit www.NightMusicOnBroadway.com.
