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Epicurus.com - A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
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List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $10.99
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646528426
Format: Cast Recording
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1998-11-10
Studio: Sony
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Summary: It isn't....It isn't....It isn't....It isn't.......Thank God!
Comment: It isn't as gloomy as Sweeney Todd. It isn't as good as Company. It's not as deep as Passion. Or as engrossing as Assassins.
Good grief, people, stop griping.
Here's a great big fat clue: SONDHEIM DOESN'T REPEAT HIMSELF!
Follies isn't like Sweeney Todd which isn't like A Little Night Music because each of those shows, and all the others by our resident genius, are once in a lifetime occurrences, special in that they will never be repeated. That's why Mr. S. had been known to got back and rework, fine tune and re-polish a show. He doesn't want to repeat it, he wants to perfect it.
So stop grousing and be grateful he wrote each of these great shows once.
By-the-way, it may have been mentioned here, but I didn't see it: There's a major change in this CD: Night Waltz 2 has been added. I'd say that's a pretty big deal.
Of course, it doesn't sound like Sunday in the Park with George.........
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Stephen Sondheim is . . .?
Comment: You can be sure of one thing from a Sondheim musical--It will be out of the ordinary. Sometimes because it is so entertaining, like "A Funny Thing ..." Sometimes because he is attempting to be a groudbreaker, as in "Pacific Overtures." One thing you can expect, the music will be interesting and innovative.
His groundbreaking can either fall flat, or catch the interest of the theater-going crowd. More than half of his musicals have lost money for their backers.
"A Little Night Music" falls into the interest-catching category, with a 601 performances, money making run. Musically, it provides a mixture of ensemble and fine solo materials. But, as a musical, it does not work for me. I will not fault previous reviewers, who raved, because I recognize that this is largely a matter of taste. It just does not taste like a musical to me.
I will continue to listen to it, enjoying the music. But I will not rush out to buy a ticket if a touring company brings it to town.
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Summary: Lightens My Life
Comment: As the song says, the whole score of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC lightens my life. I ride along listening to wonderful music while beside me, in other vehicles, I hear music one can't possibly consider music. It's a wonderful score, a great CD, the performers couldn't be better, as we all know, and I will be listening and enjoying for a very long time.
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Summary: A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast) - Sondheim
Comment: I saw the original Broadway play in New York with this cast. It was definitely off beat for the time and I wasn't so sure as the play started with operatic-like songs, but it took very little time for me to get fully into the mood of this musical. This is a tidy, sophisticated play with wonderfully nuanced lyrics and music. The pieces come through well on this recording. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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Summary: A Wonderful Score- One of Sondheim's Best
Comment: I recently purchased this album after being taken by many of Sondheim's works, such as SWEENEY TODD, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, and FOLLIES. And I am so glad I purchased it.
It's a fantastic score, with a great cast. The melodies are sweeping and irresistable, the lyrics are witty and clever.
And how can you top this cast? Len Cariou turns in a great performance as Fredrick Egerman, and Glynis Johns is perfection as Desiree Armfeldt. Hermione Gingold is also fabulous as Mme. Armfeldt.
The best tracks on the CD are:
Now/Later/Soon
The Glamorous Life
Every Day A Little Death
Liasons
A Weekend in the Country
Send in the Clowns
The Miller's Son
Go out and buy A Little Night Music, you will not be dissapointed.
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