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  1. Mar 25, 2020 · A Little Night Music is centered around human folly on a Scandinavian summer night of unending daylight. Ultimately, the final act fades into nature—the ultimate detached observer—with the magic of the purely instrumental Night Waltz. The musicologist Kim Kowalke delves into all of this in a fascinating analysis of The Miller’s Son.

  2. 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.

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  4. Mar 12, 2020 · A Little Night Music (1973) Marriage was the open question in “Company” and definitely not the answer in “Follies.” Finally, in “A Little Night Music,” Sondheim, working with a book by ...

  5. 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. Desiree Armfeldt, a stage actress of great beauty (and a reputation for taking on as many lovers as she does theatrical roles) is involved with ...

  6. Apr 21, 2014 · A Little Night Music, based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night, is simultaneously a comic and tragic farce in which romantic couples are hopelessly mismatched, but eventually find their compatible partner. The show opens with a Greek chorus of five singers and the Night Waltz. At the end, we magically dissolve back into ...

  7. Oct 27, 2019 · The Origins of “Send in the Clowns”. Considered one of, if not the one, Sondheim’s most popular songs, “Send in the Clowns” is a song in A Little Night Music that appears in Act 2. The character of Desirée Armfeldt sings this emotional ballad as she attempts to reveal her feelings for Fredrik, her former lover.

  8. Frederick Egerman (Len Cariou) is a middle-aged successful lawyer. He has recently married an 18-year-old trophy wife, Anne (Lesley-Anne Down), a vain girl who is in love with Frederick, but too immature to grasp the concept of marriage. The two have been married for eleven months, but Anne still protects her virginity.

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