A Little Night Music [Original London Cast] (1975)

A Little Night Music , the 1973 Broadway musical with a score by Stephen Sondheim, based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, demonstrated that the composer could embrace a more conventional musical comedy style after the more experimental Company and Follies ; it was an amusing romance in which all the music was set to three-quarter time or multiples thereof, a series of waltzes, and with its Gilded Age time period, in effect an updated Viennese operetta (even if it was set in Sweden). A Tony-winning ... Read More

A Little Night Music , the 1973 Broadway musical with a score by Stephen Sondheim, based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, demonstrated that the composer could embrace a more conventional musical comedy style after the more experimental Company and Follies ; it was an amusing romance in which all the music was set to three-quarter time or multiples thereof, a series of waltzes, and with its Gilded Age time period, in effect an updated Viennese operetta (even if it was set in Sweden). A Tony-winning success in New York, it produced a national tour that ran for two years with film star Jean Simmons replacing Glynis Johns in the starring role of actress Desirée Armfeldt, who rekindles her affair with the lawyer Fredrik Egerman and gets to sing to him the show's hit, "Send in the Clowns." The musical was announced for London's West End, then delayed, and finally opened on April 15, 1975, with Simmons; Hermione Gingold reprising her performance as Desirée's mother; and Joss Ackland as Fredrik. As on Broadway, the production was directed by Harold Prince, and the impression left by the original London cast recording is that not much was changed beyond the casting. If anything, the wit and sophistication of Sondheim's music come off even better in the mouths of British performers with a sense of the European class consciousness that is threaded through the story. Simmons is a better singer than Johns, and her supporting cast is just as good as the Broadway one. Those who own the original Broadway cast album may not need this one unless they saw the U.S. tour and remember Simmons' performance fondly, but it is an excellent alternate version. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi Read Less

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