Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Yankeefan007
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#1Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:16pm
"Tony Award winner Trevor Nunn will direct a Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music, according to a casting notice.
Rehearsals are scheduled to begin in October with an opening some time in December. Dates are "tentative," according to the Equity casting notice.
Producers are David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions; Andrew Fell; Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh Group. No official announcement about the production has been made."
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128713.html
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#2re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:20pmOh, what a shame. Trevor Nunn to do to A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC what he did to OKLAHOMA! Will he cast it entirely with Swedes and make it last an hour longer than it has any reason to?
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#2re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:22pm
Holy sh*t.
YES!!
"As we all should probably have learned by now, to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals" - Frank Rich
"I think it's appropriate: iSondheim - a Sondheim for the new generation! (wailing guitar riff) Get your kids hooked early on Sondheim, so they'll grow up to be just as emotionally stilted and self-conscious as we are! - BustopherPhantom
"I think it's appropriate: iSondheim - a Sondheim for the new generation! (wailing guitar riff) Get your kids hooked early on Sondheim, so they'll grow up to be just as emotionally stilted and self-conscious as we are! - BustopherPhantom
#3re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:39pmYessssss.
#4re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:42pm
About fecking time! I'm also thrilled Boyle won't be helming this.
#5re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:48pm
I'm also thrilled Boyle won't be helming this.
... who?
#6re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:50pm
"... who?"
Susan 
Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#7re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:50pmI'm pretty sure she's playing Desiree.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#8re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:50pmI'm assuming they meant Doyle.... unless Susan Boyle is aiming to over-expose herself in Broadway directing circles, as well.
#9re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:51pmPrecisely. If you can't even get someone's name right, you have no business maligning them.
#10re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:52pmI'd love to see Hannah Waddingham's Desiree on Broadway.
#11re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:54pm
Oh dear - my excitement got in the way of my smarts! Yes, I did mean Doyle (although I trust even Susan Boyle would have done a better job directing "Company").
Updated On: 4/28/09 at 12:54 PM
#12re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:54pm
This is awesome, fantastic, bittersweet news.
I wonder if any of the benefit cast will transfer?
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#13re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 12:58pmI feel like it's more likely that some of the British cast would come with it, given that they're already part of the production.
#14re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:12pmI saw the production a couple of weeks ago. It's lovely, and very close in tone to the original Bergman film. And I hope Hannah Waddingham comes over with it - she's a very sexy, very smart, very funny and very moving Desiree. And, for once, an actress who is the right age for the part.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
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#15re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:18pmVery much looking forward to it!
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#16re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:40pmUgh, I can't stand Trevor Nunn's direction. I hope he doesn't mess with this revival and I certainly hope he casts an age-appropriate Desiree, not a four year old.
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#17re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:44pmWait - Desiree is supposed to be 35?
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
#19re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:45pm
Hannah Waddingham is 35. Eva Dahlbeck, who created the role in SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, was 35 when she made the film.
What's not age appropriate about that?
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
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#20re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:47pmCan we please get Polly Bergen to reprise Madame Armfeldt as seen at Baltimore Center Stage last season? She was remarkable.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#21re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:48pm
I didn't realize that the woman in the film was only 35 (I haven't seen it in ages). It just seems awfully young for the role, especially when 35 today isn't what 35 was a hundred years ago, you know? It just seems like a different kind of story with a Desiree that young.
#22re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:51pmDesiree was younger in the movie, but she also had a toddler aged son, as opposed to Fredrika who's, what, 13 or so?
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#23re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:53pm
Is the Frederick in that production around her age (as I thought he was supposed to be) or is he older? What about Charlotte?
#24re: Nunn-directed NIGHT MUSIC revival to open in December
Posted: 4/28/09 at 1:55pmWell, Sondheim and Wheeler's Desiree is not 35, we have discussed this in other threads but Glynis Johns was 43 when the original production opened. I wouldn't buy a 35 year old Desiree. Regardless, I hope they get a cast of NY actors.
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