a little night music 2009 cast
But times change and Shepherd went back to the recording in 2009 and revivified it for a new age, and now, listeners can hear not only the voices of Len Cariou, Glynis Johns, and Hermione Gingold, but feel their presence moving through the room. But the makers of this version of A Little Night Music, led by stage director Trevor Nunn, here demonstrate that a seemingly conventional show can be surprisingly hard to get right, especially if you insist on trying to re-imagine it arbitrarily. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Soon (Reprise) / You Must Meet My Wife (Reprise), Act 2. Musical Supervisor: Caroline Humphris; Conductor/Keyboard: Tom Murray; Associate Conductor: Paul Staroba; Concert Master: Matthew Lehmann; Viola: David Blinn; Cello: Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf; Woodwind: David Young; Bassoon: Thomas Sefcovic; Harp: Susan Jolles; Bass: Dick Sarpola; Music Coordination by John Miller; Music Preparation: Katharine Edmonds and Emily Grishman Music Preparation; Music … Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Typical is his use of the bassoon, which is given a distractingly prominent line during "Liaisons" that competes with Angela Lansbury as she attempts to navigate the lyrics. This comes out all the more obviously on record since the makers of the album have opted to include a lot of dialogue. A Little Night Music [2009 Broadway Cast Recording] Stephen Sondheim Format: Audio CD. It doesn't help that the major roles are miscast, with film star Catherine Zeta-Jones basically phoning in her performance and Angela Lansbury never seeming exotic enough to justify her portrayal of Madame Armfeldt, who spends the whole show boasting of her lifetime of lucrative love affairs. Like the singing performances, the dialogue comes off as stagey and artificial, lessening the overall impact. This is consistent with the lack of delicacy with which Nunn apparently has directed the actors to perform. "A Little Night Music" was on hiatus from 6/21/2010 through 7/12/2010. Annotator Frank Rich (formerly the chief theater critic of The New York Times) suggests that the show's very conventionality (it is a straightforward romantic comedy and even has aspects of an old-fashioned Viennese operetta), in contrast to other musicals of composer Stephen Sondheim, may have worked against it; theater people may have shown greater interest in tackling more challenging and innovative works like Company and Sweeney Todd. (There's just enough to push the running time to 86 minutes and force the inclusion of a second CD, leading to a higher price for the package.) It was directed by Harold Prince with choreography by Patricia Birch and design by Boris Aronson. Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by, Mr. Lindquist, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Anderssen, Mr. Erlanson and Mrs. Segstrom, Anne Egerman, Henrik Egerman and Fredrik Egerman, Fredrika Armfeldt, Desiree Armfeldt, Madame Armfeldt, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Segstrom, Mrs. Anderssen, Mr. Lindquist and Mr. Erlanson, Mr. Lindquist, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Segstrom, Mr. Erlanson and Mrs. Anderssen, Countess Charlotte Malcolm and Anne Egerman, Mrs. Anderssen, Mrs. Segstrom, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mr. Lindquist and Mr. Erlanson, Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mr. Erlanson, Mr. Lindquist, Mrs. Segstrom and Mrs. Anderssen, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Segstrom and Mrs. Anderssen, Jujamcyn Theaters (Jordan Roth: President; Paul Libin: Producing Director; Jack Viertel: Creative Director), The Menier Chocolate Factory (David Babani, Artistic Director). Act 2. It played there until September 15, 1973, then moved to the Majestic Theatre, on September 17, and closed there on August 3, 1974, after 601 performances and 12 previews. 4.1 out of 5 stars 40 ratings. Betsy Morgan, Company, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan & Stephan R. Buntrock, Angela Lansbury & Katherine Leigh Doherty, Alexander Hanson, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka & Ramona Mallory, Angela Lansbury, Betsy Morgan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jayne Paterson, Keaton Whittaker, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan & Stephan R. Buntrock, Alexander Hanson, Betsy Morgan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan, Ramona Mallory & Stephan R. Buntrock, Angela Lansbury, Betsy Morgan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jayne Paterson, Katherine Leigh Doherty, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan & Stephan R. Buntrock, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan & Stephan R. Buntrock, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson & Marissa McGowan, Aaron Lazar, Alexander Hanson, Betsy Morgan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erin Davie, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Kevin David Thomas & Ramona Mallory, Aaron Lazar, Alexander Hanson, Betsy Morgan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erin Davie, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan & Stephan R. Buntrock, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The Motion Picture Soundtrack), Into the Woods (2014 Motion Picture Soundtrack), Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Bonus Tracks], Into the Woods (2014 Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition], West Side Story (1961 Motion Picture Soundtrack), West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Into the Woods (2002 Broadway Revival Cast). The cast included Glynis Johns (Desiree Armfeldt), Len Cariou (Fredrik Egerman), Hermione Gingold (Madame Armfeldt), Victoria Mallory (Anne Egerman), Judith Kahan 15. A Weekend in the Country (Reprise) / Every Day a Little Death (Reprise). The problems begin with the new orchestrations of Jason Carr for an ensemble of only 11 players. A Little Night Music, with its three-quarter-time tunes and Old World ambience, needs to be played lightly, but this cast is relentlessly heavy, broadly overplaying everywhere, as if the show were a knockabout farce instead of a weightless comedy. Price: £23.74: See all 2 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. The commercial success of the initial Broadway production of A Little Night Music in 1973 makes it surprising that it took nearly 37 years for a revival to be mounted in late 2009, and, at that, a transfer (with some key casting changes) from a small-scale version first seen in London. A Little Night Music, with its three-quarter-time tunes and Old World ambience, needs to be played lightly, but this cast is relentlessly heavy, broadly overplaying everywhere, as if the show were a knockabout farce instead of a weightless comedy. Amazon Price New from Used from Audio CD, CD, 19 April 2010 "Please retry" £23.74 . This comes out all the more obviously on record since the makers of the album have opted to include a lot of dialogue. Angela Lansbury, Betsy Morgan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jayne Paterson, Katherine Leigh Doherty, Kevin David Thomas, Marissa McGowan & Stephan R. Buntrock. © 2001 - 2020, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. Maybe people stayed away from doing a Broadway revival of A Little Night Music for so long because it seemed too easy; from the evidence of this recording, however, re-creating a success can be very difficult, especially if one opts to be different for the sake of being different. A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973. On the other hand, Carr has nearly eliminated the familiar bassoon line from "Send in the Clowns," robbing the song of some of its pathos. Carr seems determined to dispense with what worked in the first version and introduce elements that do not.
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