Angela Lansbury Discusses A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

Legendary stage and screen superstar Angela Lansbury discusses Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler's sumptuous summer-set musical A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC in a new video interview released in promotion of the recently released soundtrack album for the motion picture version (which, incidentally, she was not involved in, alas).

Lansbury remarks upon the Ingmar Bergman-inspired musical in which she starred on the Great White Way in 2010 opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, who received a Tony Award for Best Actress In A Musical, and recounts her process in accepting the role.

The icon says of her Broadway return, "To come back and sing on Broadway thirty years later - it just seemed a natural. It just seemed a natural for me to play Madame Armfeldt finally."

"I did resist it for quite a long while, but then Stephen [Sondheim] came back to me again - and, he was very, very sweet and very tender about suggesting that I should do it," Lansbury says of her meetings with the master composer/lyricist.

Lansbury adds, "Finally, having done two shows - including the kind of successful BLITHE SPIRIT, which was this crazy lady [as well as Terrence McNally's DEUCE] - that gave me the confidence to come back and do A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC."

The original ANYONE CAN WHISTLE and SWEENEY TODD star concludes of her decision, "Yes, I should do this - my time has come to play this old bird. So, I trotted out my acting and vocal skills once more and loved it, loved doing it."

View the new video interview with Angela Lansbury discussing A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC below.