The revival of Sondheim and Wheeler’s A Little Night Music continues its Tony Award winning run at the Walter Kerr Theatre. It stars Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones in her Broadway debut. The production was directed by the acclaimed and Tony Award winning Trevor Nunn. It opened in November of 2009 to a supportive audience and received instant appreciation and success. Tickets for the show are available and many times guests in one of the hotels in New York USA are able to gain purchasing information and assistance through the concierge or hotel lobby.
The musical is based on a novel by Ingmar Bergman titled Smiles of a Summer Night. It is set in a turn of the century country home in Sweden and deals with themes of romantic attraction and the idea of endless love. Stephen Sondheim is one of the most honored and well respected composers and lyrists of this and the last century. He has had an amazing career that has spanned over fifty years and while he has written numerous songs for the stage, only one of those has crossed over to become a mainstream hit. This is the well known Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music, which one a Grammy Award in 1976 for Judy Collins’ recording of it.
Sondheim has won numerous Tony Awards, in fact he has won more than any other composer and has created some of Broadway and musical theatre’s greatest hits. Among his many productions are Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Company. He also wrote the lyrics for Gypsy and West Side Story. He also holds the distinction of having won the Pulitzer Prize and he served as the President of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981. The Pulitzer was awarded in Drama for Sunday in the Park With George. A Little Night Music deals with the romantic lives and loves of various couples away for the weekend and touches on romantic ideals of eternal love. It originally opened on Broadway in 1973 at the Shubert Theatre.