A Little Night Music Revival 2009
Run Time:
2 hours and 50 minutes, with one intermission
2 hours and 50 minutes, with one intermission
Ages: 8+
Opened: December 13, 2009Closing: January 09, 2011
A Little Night Music - 2009 Broadway History , Info & More
Walter Kerr Theatre (Broadway)
219 West 48th St. New York, NY
Nominated for 4 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, the first 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, 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. Now starring Tony®, Grammy® & Golden Globe® Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony® & Emmy ®Award winner Elaine Stritch. Casting after November 7 is TBD.
A Little Night Music - 2009 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR A Little Night Music
Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim make sweet 'Night Music' together
7 / 10
Zeta-Jones is less effective, though, at suggesting Desiree's weary, rueful edges. Her throaty laughter seems almost too emphatic at times, as does her singing, whether she's showing her claws in You Must Meet My Wife or acknowledging defeat in Send in the Clowns. This might owe something to Nunn's direction, as other performances here flirt with overzealousness. Ramona Mallory is particularly shrill as Anne, Fredrik's post-pubescent second wife. To be fair, Music demands a capacity for both broad comedy and pathos, and the director and cast mine and juggle these qualities rigorously and, for the most part, skillfully. None of them, of course, blend wit and poignancy better than Lansbury — or Sondheim's score, for that matter. They are, without question, the two best reasons to see this revival.
A Little Night Music
6 / 10
The most atypical of Ingmar Bergman's celebrated films, 'Smiles of a Summer Night' brought ripe carnality and a delicious sense of irony to its fin-de-siecle gathering of romantically muddled Swedes. Those same intoxicating elements were translated to 'A Little Night Music,' Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's exquisite waltz-musical inspired by the film. Reviving the 1973 show, director Trevor Nunn brings a blunt, heavy hand where a glissando touch is required, but the wit and sophistication of the material are sufficient to withstand even this phlegmatic staging. A handful of magnetic leads provides further insurance against the uneven production.
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A Little Night Music History
Other Productions of A Little Night Music
| 1973 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 1974 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
| 1975 | West End |
London Production West End |
| 1977 | College/University (US) |
Northwestern University Production College/University (US) |
| 1981 | Off-Off-Broadway |
Off-Off-Broadway Revival Off-Off-Broadway |
| 1985 | Off-Broadway |
Equity Library Theatre Revival Off-Broadway |
| 1989 | West End |
London Revival West End |
| 1990 | Off-Broadway |
New York City Opera Revival Off-Broadway |
| 1991 | Off-Broadway |
Return Engagement [NYCO Revival] Off-Broadway |
| 1995 | West End |
Royal National Theatre Production West End |
| 2002 | Regional (US) |
Sondheim Festival Production Regional (US) |
| 2003 | Off-Broadway |
New York City Opera Production Off-Broadway |
| 2009 | West End |
West End Transfer West End |
| 2009 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2020 | Los Angeles |
Knot Free Productions Production Los Angeles |
A Little Night Music - 2009 Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Angela Lansbury |
| 2009 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical (tie) | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 2009 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Angela Lansbury |
| 2009 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | A Little Night Music |
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