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' is one of the most delectable musicals ever written, by Stephen Sondheim or anyone else. Angela Lansbury is giving a performance that deserves to be part of theater legend. Catherine Zeta-Jones is earthy and poignant in her confident Broadway debut. With all that, it is easier to live with - if not really forgive - the visual drabness and heavy hand of this gorgeous musical's first revival since its Tony-winning 1973 premiere. Director Trevor Nunn's skimpy production, conceived last year for London's tiny Meniere Chocolate Factory, arrives with another of those scandalously reduced orchestras that Broadway producers try to pass off these days as innovation.
They are, in a word, bewitching. And they give performances quite unlike their predecessors. Just for the record (go look it up), I enjoyed more than some colleagues director Trevor Nunn's leisurely, intimately scaled, darker-toned take on this sophisticated musical affair about former lovers Desiree and Fredrik, now middle-aged, who rekindle their romance in spite of other attachments.
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 |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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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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