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Shows · A Little Night Music · Shubert Theatre, 1973

A Little Night Music, 1973

Opened February 25, 1973

Closed August 3, 1974

601 performances

Shubert Theatre

Original

Broadway

6 Tony Awards

A Little Night Music
Martha Swope, New York

Of the productions that opened in the 1970s, this had the 43rd longest run.

Other stagings of A Little Night Music 1 more

2009
Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Trevor Nunn
425 performances

Who was in it19 named

Despo
Benjamin Rayson
Gene Varrone
Will Sharpe Marshall
Dick Sabol

Creative team

Director
Harold Prince
Choreographer
Patricia Birch
Producer
Harold Prince

Tony Awards 6 from 12 nominations

Best Musical
Won
Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1973
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music Columbia Masterworks KS 32265, released April 1973
United States

17 more exist for other runs of this show: see A Little Night Music for all of them.

Around this production

"Send in the Clowns" was written specifically for Glynis Johns, who had a thin, breathy voice. Sondheim crafted it with short phrases so she could breathe between them. It became his only pop hit.

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