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A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13, K. 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
- Hugh Wheeler
- 1974
Summaries. An actress, her married ex-lover, her current lover's wife and other guests gather at a circa-1900 estate. Frederick Egerman (Len Cariou) is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne (Lesley-Anne Down).
Synopsis. In turn of the century Sweden, trysts abound. Lawyer Fredrik Egerman has married the virginal 18-year-old Anne, with whom Fredrik’s son, the melancholy academic Henrik, has fallen in love.
by Rick Pender. A Little Night Music is Sondheim’s eighth Broadway musical. The romantic farce about the lives of several upper middle-class couples in early twentieth-century Sweden was suggested by Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), an evening of sexual musical chairs on the longest night of the year.
PLAY SYNOPSIS. Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik’s town, the estranged lovers’ passion rekindles.
Synopsis: A Little Night Music is set in a Swedish country estate at the turn of the 20th century. The musical weaves together the lives of a group of couples in a dance of love and longing as they navigate through the complexities of desire, age, and society’s expectations.
A Little Night Music: Directed by Harold Prince. With Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down. An actress, her married ex-lover, her current lover's wife and other guests gather at a circa-1900 estate.
