Stephen Sondheim - A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Stephen SondheimBrand: SONDHEIM,STEPHEN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1998-11-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. Overture and Night Waltz
- Act 1. Now/Later/Soon
- Act 1. A Glamorous Life
- Act 1. Remember?
- Act 1. You Must Meet My Wife
- Act 1. Liaisons
- Act 1. In Praise of Women
- Act 1. Every Day a Little Death
- Act 1. A Weekend in the Country
- Act 2. Night Waltz I / The Sun Won't Set
- Act 2. Night Waltz II / The Sun Sits Low [#]
- Act 2. It Would Have Been Wonderful
- Act 2. Perpetual Anticipation
- Act 2. Send in the Clowns
- Act 2. The Miller's Son
- Act 2. Finale: Send in the Clowns (reprise) / Night Waltz (reprise)
- The Glamorous Life [*]
Free Music Notes for A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: A Timeless Classic Restored to Magnificence
Hit: 5 Stars
Night Music has been my favorite musical since I first heard it on LP, then stood in the back of the theatre for 10 consecutive performances of this cast. This show exemplifies the best of the Broadway idiom for me and, like the previous reviewer, it made me a devotee of Sondheim for ever and ever, amen. Dated? Excuuuuse me! Len Cariou is so perfect as Frederik -- his was the only version of the character that makes him seem real -- fallible, virile, rueful and ultimately a perfect match for Desiree. And speaking of Desiree, Glynnis Johns played her with elegance and panache. If her performance of the music was more sprechstimme than song, so be it -- Sondheim wrote the music for her style and it works beautifully. The score and lyrics -- well what can one say? Fiendishly clever words and music that soars, dances and subtly shifts its mood to suite the events of the endless summer night. The great songs follow one after the other -- from the marvellous interplay of "Soon/Later/Now" to "Ordinary Lives" to "Liasons," "The Miller's Son," and, yes, "Send in the Clowns." This tune has been so bastardized by crooners and lounge lizards, it's become a cliche. But, just listen once to Ms. Johns' rendition and it becomes fresh and new once again. I realize and remember that this is not a song of sorrow; but of frustration and anger at a universe that would let two people who love each other get so far apart. I could go on and on -- but don't listen to me. Get this CD and listen to it. THen listen to it again. You'll be hooked, I guarantee.
A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
No Description Available.Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-NOV-1998
Perhaps best known for the hit "Send In the Clowns," Stephen Sondheim's glamorous 3/4 waltz-time musical recalls enchanted evenings, white kidskin elbow gloves, and romance of the green-eyed bittersweet and bed-hopping sort. The ruse is that these folks lead "ordinary lives": the father is widowed, remarries, and briefly rekindles a sack-side former flame; the son flirts with the maid; the child bride is cuckolded yet loves and is loved by the son; and the maid has a romp with the butler. Adapted from a mid-'50s Ingmar Bergman film, the play debuted in America in the early '70s and is set in Sweden's turn-of-the-century well-to-do society. Now remastered and heard at the dawn of the millennium, Night Music is a dated yet charmingly affected period piece, abundant in its sweeping theatricality. As an unhappily chaste newlywed, Len Cariou, Broadway's glistening middle-aged dandy, is smashing as Fredrick. Glynis Johns (who always sounds congested and quite cosmopolitan) steals focus as the delightful actress Desiree. Night Music is a foolishly fanciful, twinkly score swathed in plucky harp, sweeping strings, and coolly elegant conversational tunes. --Paige La Grone
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