A Little Night Music
Shows · A Little Night Music
An original Broadway cast recording of the 1973 musical A Little Night Music was made in the same year by Columbia. Released on LP, it peaked at number 94 on Billboard's Top LPs chart and won the Grammy in the "Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album" category.
- Opened
- 1973
- Performances
- 601
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1973.
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1973 | Shubert Theatre Original. February 25, 1973 · Harold Prince | 601 performances · 6 Tony wins |
| 2009 | Walter Kerr Theatre Revival. December 13, 2009 · Trevor Nunn | 425 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 18 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International A Little Night Music matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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57 passages naming A Little Night Music, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
With the electric current of the nervy, ultramodern Company, he embarked with Hal Prince on a journey of shows, including Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, and Sweeney Todd, which, if not always financial hits, can absolutely not be dismissed as failures in any sense, as they undeniably made waves with… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p77
For her staggering, Ziegfeldian inspirations for Follies, undisputedly the most beautifully designed Broadway musical ever, Klotz’s place in history would be guaranteed had she never designed another show. In addition to her sumptuous work for Follies, her red dresses for leading ladies became her signature: for Alexis… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p205
In Engel’s view, nearly all great musicals were a product of a “Golden Age” that started with Pal Joey (1940) and ended with Fiddler on the Roof (1964). For the 1975 second edition, Engel found two worthy Sondheim shows to add to the list, Company (1970) and A Little Night Music (1973). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p12
Engel’s list of fifteen Broadway “models of excellence” includes A Little Night Music. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p43
this device would become more prominent in Sondheim (e.g., the combination of “Now,” “Later,” and “Soon” in A Little Night Music). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p291
Unlike Brando, Simmons returned to musical theater when in 1975 she played the lead in the London production of A Little Night Music. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p376
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