The very first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, A Little Night Music, opens tomorrow, December 13, 2009 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.Broadway legend and five-time Tony Award®–winner Angela Lansbury stars as Madame Armfeldt with Academy Award®–winner Catherine Zeta-Jones making her Broadway debut. Olivier Award-nominee Alexander Hanson portrays Fredrik Egerman as he did in the U.K. performances. Tony Award®-winner Trevor Nunn directed this revival in London before the move across the pond to Broadway.
The musical is based on the Ingmar Bergman film, Smiles of a Summer Night. Set at a weekend country home in late 19th century Sweden, themes of romance, suppressed desires, and revelations are brilliantly woven together by composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, with a book by Hugh Wheeler.
Sondheim and Wheeler both won Tonys for the original 1973 Broadway production of A Little Night Music. Every song is written in waltz (3/4) time, and the score features one of Sondheim's most well-known songs, "Send In the Clowns."
Ticket prices range from $52 to $137 and will be sold at least through June 2010. The show is 2 hours, 40 minutes with a 15 minute intermission. Parental Guidance is suggested for children ages 4 to 8, but children 3 and under are not permitted in the theatre.
Source: http://www.nightmusiconbroadway.com/
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