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A Little Night Music. An actress (Elizabeth Taylor), her married ex-lover (Len Cariou), her current lover's wife (Diana Rigg) and other guests gather at a circa-1900 estate.
Tony Award for Best Original Score. 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.
A Little Night Music is a 1977 musical romantic comedy film directed by Harold Prince in his second and final directorial role. The screenplay by Hugh Wheeler is adapted from his book for Stephen Sondheim's 1973 musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film, Smiles of a Summer Night.
Synopsis. Send in the clowns… send in the crowds… the Tony-Award winning musical is now a lot of movie! A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom.
Overview. A tangled web of affairs is weaved 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. Hugh Wheeler. Screenplay, Writer. Hal Prince.
Stephen Sondheim’s shimmering musical (based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night) transfers from the Broadway stage to the silver screen with a who’s-who cast along for the ride. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Dec 1, 1977 · This film, also directed by Prince, is adapted from the stage musical. In the movie, in the early 1900s, a group of friends bound together by complicated romantic entanglements, have come together for an elegant dinner at a country estate.
