A Little London Night Music

#1

A Little London Night Music

Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:07pm

With the current production at The Menier Chocolate Factory doing stellar business, wooing the critics and a West End transfer almost signed and sealed, I thought I would post the art work for the previous London productions that we have had the honor of seeing.
Broadway hasn't been so lucky but I'm pretty sure The Menier production will get to their shores as did 'Sunday In The Park with George' in the next year or so.

Adelphi Theatre. 15th April 1975.
406 perfs.


Piccadilly Theatre. 11th October 1989.
149 perfs.


National Theatre, Olivier auditorium. 26th September 1995.
276 perfs in rep.

Updated On: 1/19/09 at 04:07 PM

#2

re: A Little London Night Music

Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:10pm

I'm in love with the second poster..! It's gorgeous.

#3

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:21pm

SAM!!!!!
Its my fav, always has been! And it was a gorgeous production.
It was described by The Guardian as 'superbly superior to the original Adelphi production of 1975'.

Updated On: 1/19/09 at 04:21 PM

#4

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:31pm

There's artwork..then there's art!

We may not agree on Spaniards and Italians..but at least we agree on something :)

#5

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:32pm

...and panto after Christmas

#6

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:47pm

Thanks for those! I have a large version (3 1/2 foot tall) of the first one hanging on my wall - think it must have been a FOH sign or something...

#7

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:54pm

The more detailed album cover for the London recording is quiet stunning.

#8

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:56pm

**The first post has been added to with opening dates and performance numbers.

#9

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:04pm

I think the first and second are pieces of art in their own right, rather than being designed specifically for the production.

The first is one of a series of four that were all on a similar theme.

#10

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:06pm

But pantomime before Christmas is something i've grown up with...since age 5, we've always gone to see the Panto on the 24th December (or a day or two before). I don't disagree with panto after christmas, i just personally won't ever be at one :P

My favourite poster really reminds me of a poster for a ballet or an art gallery..i can't get over how amazing it is!

#11

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:06pm

Yet this is the one most copied and by far my least favorite.

#12

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:10pm

i've only just realised..there are people in the tree..! never noticed that before. still don't like it though.

#13

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:14pm

....bit like those plates in 'La cage'!

#14

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:16pm

A little more obvious in this one...but god its so awful, cheap, nasty and very unSondheim.

#15

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:17pm

what plates..?!

#16

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:37pm

My father used to play the "tree" LP a lot when I was a child and I can remember having seen it loads of times before I spotted one, then another, then all of the people in the tree.

The one for the film version is diabolical.

#17

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:49pm

Should have used this one for the DVD at least!


**I think this was the DVD that was promised for years but then fell thru and it went to a cheap DVD company (Hen something or other? )that eventually got it into the shops with the cheaper art work.

Updated On: 1/19/09 at 05:49 PM

#18

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 6:30pm

I love the artwork of the one mama doesn't!

#19

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Posted: 1/19/09 at 6:54pm

#20

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Posted: 1/20/09 at 7:03am

I never noticed the people in the tree before either! Wow!

Really don't like that Kennedy Centre one at all

#21

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Posted: 1/20/09 at 6:29pm

I saw the Kennedy Centre production and didn't enjoy it.

The first poster above makes the show look French rather than Scandinavian.

#22

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Posted: 1/21/09 at 6:13am

I have the original Broadway artwork showcard framed. When the London artwork came out with the Mucha (?) poster (yes it is one of a series of four) I bought that too. I believe they are called, Summer (the one pictured here),Autumn, Winter and Spring.

For my money you can't beat the original Boris Aaronson set design-although the rattling of the passing trees was a bit of an issue. Whenever I hear Perpetual Anticipation the shear sumptuousness of the diningroom set gliding on with Madame Armfeldt seated at the table enters my head. Lovely.

Updated On: 1/21/09 at 06:13 AM

#23

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Posted: 1/21/09 at 6:24am

Calm down dear.
Rattling trees, floating dinning rooms- what are you on down there?

#24

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Posted: 1/21/09 at 6:33am

I'm high on my memories from a time when musicals were actually worth getting excited about. There was no WE WILL ROCK YOU,no PHANTOM...oh don't get me started!

(The "floating diningroom" was actually tracked on...don't tell me mama you don't remember?).

#25

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Posted: 1/21/09 at 6:50am

of course I do! (just)
...and the car! -or was it two cars?, yes, i think it was two cars for 'A Weekend In The Country'?

Updated On: 1/21/09 at 06:50 AM