A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#1
Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:36amI see a lot of people criticizing Trevor Nunn's direction in this new production. I think he did a fine job, but my absolute favorite part is the opening with the vocalizing and the dancing and the body language. It all looks like a music box. My favorite part of the show for sure.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#2
Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:56amAlso one of my favorite parts of the production.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#2
Posted: 12/10/10 at 7:36amI do think it works beautifully. I also love that most people here are singing a different tune about this revival than they were a year ago when it opened, and it has turned into one of the most recommended shows around here. My only complaint about this moment still is that, yes, it is a night waltz, but I always wish there was just a tiny bit more light on the stage. Not too much so we could still get the sense of night, but just a tiny bit more.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#3
Posted: 12/10/10 at 7:38amI will say this, as much as people criticize the Kerr's balcony. Seeing it from up there was absolutely stunning.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#4
Posted: 12/10/10 at 11:32amNOT TO BE MISSED...saw it three times.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#5
Posted: 12/10/10 at 11:56am
I saw the Tuesday night show and was blown away 
I loved every second. It was BEAUTIFUL.
A happy-ending Sondheim show? ... I mean yes she dies in her chair, but... she was happy and so was everyone else... My only issue with the show has always been that I want to see everyone's reaction to her passing...
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#6
Posted: 12/10/10 at 12:51pm
Yes, the "music box" image also occurred to me, and it reminded me of the opening title sequence of the 1975 film AT LONG LAST LOVE (featuring Cole Porter's songs) which shows a music box with a pair of couples waltzing away.
Appropriately - to the tune of "Just One of Those things" - the waltzing stops, the couples separate and change partners resuming the waltz.
It's an apt summation of the plot to come(convoluted and poorly told in the film) but also stolen from Hal Prince's and Pat Birch's original staging of the opening of NIGHT MUSIC where the waltzing and re-coupling couples foreshadowed the plot.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#7
Posted: 12/10/10 at 1:18pmI don't think it's necessarily stolen. It's in the text.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#8
Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:47pm
Spoiler alert, Eponine.
I was completely in love with the night waltz. I had front row seats, and felt completely immersed in the action. I can imagine how lovely it must have looked from the balcony.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#9
Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:50pmI too loved that moment. It created a dream-like state for me that most of the production seemed to be in.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#10
Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:51pmEponine, I don't think anyone dies in the show. Did I miss something?
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#11
Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:54pm
*Spoiler* ?
Madame Armfeldt dies at the end.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#12
Posted: 12/10/10 at 3:01pmOh, I thought she just fell asleep again on that last scene. Oops.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#14
Posted: 12/10/10 at 4:46pm
hahahahahahaha.
I love the opening too, I think it's thrilling.
"A happy-ending Sondheim show? ... I mean yes she dies in her chair, but... she was happy and so was everyone else.."
I don't think that Charlotte will be happy.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#15
Posted: 12/10/10 at 4:57pmCharlotte leaves happy because Carl Magnus becomes a "tiger" for her.
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#16
Posted: 12/10/10 at 5:03pmI know but in the long term as if their relationship will 'work out' imo....
Leading Actor Joined: 11/15/07
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#17
Posted: 12/12/10 at 1:04amCharlotte's never going to be happy...
A Little Night Music Overture/Night Waltz#18
Posted: 12/12/10 at 12:56pmKad... What I meant was that the waltzing and re-coupling couples image was stolen by Peter Bogdonovich for his 1975 film AT LONG LAST LOVE from Hal Prince's staging of ALNM in 1973. Sorry, I did not make that as clear as I should have. But yes, you are right it is in the text of NIGHT MUSIC.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
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