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broadwaybabywannabe2 said: ""WHAT I HAVEN'T SEEN: I would want to see the Jean Simmons-led cast of "A Little Night Music" in the 1970s - one of my all-time favorite cast recordings".

David10086 i was lucking enough to have seen the sublime Jean Simmons in the touring company of ALNM here at the long gone Shubert Theatre in Century City...i had seen Glynis Johns in the OBC in New York, and i loved her, but i was such a Jean Simmons fan of all her movie roles that to see her sing "Send In The Clowns" was pure heaven!!...to this day i will say ALNM is the most perfect musical Sondheim wrote!"

I worked the last stop on that national tour. Hermoine Gingold replaced Margaret Hamilton to brush up before Gingold and Simmons went to open the original London production. I am posting to report that for those who care about such things, Miss Simmons was just as lovely off-stage as she was magical on-stage.

FWIW, Simmons couldn't sing the triplets correctly in "The Glamorous Life" any better than Glynnis Johns. But, really, who cared?

ETA my choice for my one theater trip via time machine would have to be to see Merman in GYPSY. I worked with Angela Lansbury on the show in the 1970s and Angie was transcendent. And I was lucky to see Merman in CALL ME MADAM on tour. But the guys did write Rose for Miss Merman.

Updated On: 1/5/19 at 04:47 AM

GavestonPS said: "broadwaybabywannabe2 said: ""WHAT I HAVEN'T SEEN: I would want to see the Jean Simmons-led cast of "A Little Night Music" in the 1970s - one of my all-time favorite cast recordings".

David10086 i was lucking enough to have seen the sublime Jean Simmons in the touring company of ALNM here at the long gone Shubert Theatre in Century City...i had seen Glynis Johns in the OBC in New York, and i loved her, but i was such a Jean Simmons fan of all her movie roles that to see her sing "Send In The Clowns" was pure heaven!!...to this day i will say ALNM is the most perfect musical Sondheim wrote!"

I worked the last stop on that national tour. Hermoine Gingold replaced Margaret Hamilton to brush up before Gingold and Simmons went to open the original London production. I am posting to report that for those who care about such things, Miss Simmons was just as lovely off-stage as she was magical on-stage.

FWIW, Simmons couldn't sing the triplets correctly in "The Glamorous Life" any better than Glynnis Johns. But, really, who cared?."



For everyone who had the chance to see Simmons in ALNM, thank you for sharing your experiences here with me. I'm so envious of you all - in a very good way! LOL, I would agree it is the best Sondheim musical by far. I did see the revival with Bernadette Peters / Elaine Strich and loved it - though was disappointed with the staging and costumes. Believe it or not, I also enjoy the movie (despite the miscast Taylor) - Diana Rigg is superb in the film.

Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie.