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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
A Little Night Music - Musical. A Little Night Music plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.
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.
A Little Night Music explores the timeless themes of passion, regret, and the pursuit of happiness. Musical Information. Musical Type: Pre-Contemporary (1973) Cast Size: 9+. Genre: Romantic Comedy. Setting: 1900s / Sweden. Creative Team. Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim. Book: Hugh Wheeler. Cast Albums. Original Broadway Cast (1973) .
May 17, 2024 · Fredrik Egerman, a prosperous, widowed lawyer in his early forties with a twenty-year-old son, Henrik, has been married for almost a year to an eighteen-year-old girl, Anne, whome he has known since she was a child. Due to her shyness, he has not been able to consummate the marriage.
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). Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrick goes ...
May 4, 2023 · It encapsulates this bittersweet farce and the genius that is Hugh Wheeler's wistful book against the waltz-time of one of Stephen Sondheim's finest scores. Michael Hayden and Merle Dandridge in ...
