A Little Night Music (Full Show)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2017
- A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The musical includes the popular song "Send in the Clowns". Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups. It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.
Filmed on September 4, 2010 at The Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway
Cast:
Bernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch, Alexander Hanson, Erin Davie, Leigh Ann Larkin, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Ramona Mallory, Bradley Dean, Stephen R. Buntock, Ben Davis, Jessica Grove, Katherine McNamara, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Keaton Whittaker, Karen Murphy, Erin Stewart.
Notes:
Because of latecomers and people moving constantly, "Now, Later, Soon" and a scene in Act Two are taken from the 5/4/10 performance, the beginning of "Liaisons" is from a few days earlier as is the last minute of Act One. They are all spliced very well together to make the best video possible with no cast changes whatsoever.
Bernadette Peters is a gift to Musical Theatre!
Someone was criticizing the "cinematography?" Really? It's a bootleg, what do you expect. Saw this with Angela and Catherine. Loved it then. Love it now. Thank you for posting!
In 60 years of musical shows, perhaps the most indelible performance I ever saw was Glynis Johns in "Night Music." From her entrance through to THAT song written for her voice by the maestro of Broadway, she was quite the delight. A wonderful performance in a wonderful show, one of Maestro's best. Gorgeous Hal Prince staging, costumes, sets, automobiles, dinner table. Scrumptious. And THAT song, the definitive version, sung by the best of them all, Glynis Johns (#2 in my memory is Mrs Lovett, Dot at #3).
I also saw it in New York with Angela and Catherine. A wonderful show. 2010.
Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra is so haunting. She just understands the lyrics and the sadness behind her character.
I worked this show for a week.... Bernadette made me cry every performance. She was so still.... So brilliant.
Bravo.
Alexander Hanson and Bradley Dean’s singing in It Would Have Been Wonderful is MAGICAL!!
Brilliant Sondheim….there will never be another like him!
Bernadette made me cry with Send in the Clowns 💔and Elaine made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂 both were spectacular to watch
Peters' performance is nothing short of brilliant.
Bernadette’s SEND IN THE CLOWNS is nothing short of Brilliant!! The only thing missing was a handkerchief for her tears. Brava!!
Saw this on Broadway - truly memorable
Alexander Hanson sings as honest a Frederick as can be imagined. beautiful, natural singing with NO affectation. wow.
Thank you for preserving this stellar performance!! 🎭 It means more now than ever.
I adore Leigh Ann’s Petra, and Peters is obviously sublime. Thanks for uploading!
I have loved this musical forever, especially the choral 'vespers' pieces by the quartet/quintet, and the way Sondheim works in the multiple characters together in song while they sing their separate persepective of the story. It's so musically beautiful it brings tears to my eyes every time. I never had the chance to see Bernadette Peters on stage so this is a real treat. I don't care that it's mono audio, or that the video is lo-fi, or that someone's head is slightly in the way sometimes. Don't care don't care Don't Care!!! I Love It anyway. Thank you!!!
In the emotional state that I'm in, the most heartwarming bit in this is how Madame armfelt braces her daughters' note durring a glamorous life. I'm so happy the nefarious bootlegger kept it in
So happy to see this. I saw this production with the previous cast, Catherine-Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury. Jones had none of the subtlety and charm of Peters. Now, of course, Lansbury sung “Liaisons” much better than Stritch (whose phrasing is very strange), but Stritch is wonderfully funny in her dialogue parts and gives the production a kick in the pants it really needs.
This whole Zeta Jones tour was dreadful. This production was low-budget and that was most pronounced in the sets. The lavish banquet scene was staged as a picnic. The actors sat on a quilt, on the stage floor. Miss Zeta Jones might have swayed them in Denver, but Broadway demands were beyond her capabilities. I was given these tickets as a gift. There were so many worthwhile shows in town, I am sorry I missed any of them for THIS mess. Hal Prince kinda raised the bar way too high for mere mortals.
A dear friend who had escorted me to the original Hal Prince event, a definite 10 out of 10 evening, thought it would be a lovely gesture to take me to see Catherine Zita Jones. Zita as in zit. Jezus, there were about 10 other shows on Broadway that I would have chosen, if only he had asked. This production, this lowly bus & truck production, intended for 2-night runs in Omaha, and environs, was one of the outstandingly awful nights in my 60 years of shows on Broadway. The production was low-budget, most of that spent obviously on cheeze, because this was one cheezee-looking show. Zita did not charm, that was not part of her abilities. The gorgeous Hal Prince banquet scene, lavish beyond lavish, here became a picnic, with said blanket on the stage floor, requiring the feast attendees to sit flat on their butts in period costumes, and the sway and grunt as they tried to get back up. I should have packed up my own picnic right then and there, and headed for an exit. Bad. Bad. Bad. And the song. The song. You know, THE song. I think the Boys Choir of Hooterville had more depth and understanding of the words meanings, and feelings behind them. I wish I could Ajax this crap from my memory. Did I mention awful?
One thing I want to do more than anything is a Sondheim show. The year before I joined the adult cast, they did Sweeney. This is one of my absolute favourites
My very first show, at 16, was this goofy musical about a slave in ancient Rome. It was just too weird for words, or vice versa. The words were too weird for Rodgers & Hammerstein. I guess you could call it too original. I've now got one foot in the grave, but ask me the words to A Funny Thing. I have them down pat.
One of my most favorite musicals
Thank you so much for sharing! I saw this cast years ago. If only they also did a recording with this cast!
it s like a casual opera, masterpiece!
"A Little Night Music" with words and music by Stephen Sondheim, was composed as an operetta. Since it's funny, I guess you could call it casual.
Thank you for posting this! I really loved it and the cast was amazing ^^
29:17 =😶🤩🤩🤩🤩 THAT WAS GOOD!!! SHE WAS A FAR BETTER DESIRÉE THAN I EXPECTED... Most of the Desirée would focus on the fun and glamorous side of her life, Bernadette made it feel real that it's tiring and confusing at times but it's good. She survived...
Sondheim = genius
Beautiful! So happy to find this.
I've wanted to see this FOREVER thank you for uploading!
People, as a lifetime fanatic, I beseech you to search for productions of Night Music other than this one. It is truly a wonderful show, as produced by Harold Prince. What you are raving about here is not top notch Sondheim by any measure. The three Broadway actresses are stars, but they cannot lift this dead-on-arrival revival up where it belongs. There are other so much better productions of all Sondheim shows on RUclips. Search them out. You don't need grape juice when there is so much available vintage wine, there for the watching. Sondheim is as good as Shakespeare and deserves a good reading. Give him that.
This has to be my all time favourite show!!
This petra is amazing
Thank you so much! This is awesome.
Barry Deutsch has
quarantine wonderful 💚
I love Elaine to death but something about her Madame Armfeldt just doesn't work for me. Bernadette is perfection, of course.
Bernadette Peters is a treasure. I was moved to tears at Send in the Clowns. But she's no Krusty. #IonlycallyouscumcomparedtoKrusty
Always wanted to see this. THANK YOU for posting.
Oh, and if f anyone knows how to find:
Phantom w/Guillaume
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels w/Pryce
Dolly w/Midler... I'd be very appreciative for any info! THX!
regardless of the recording , this production was strongly critiqued for the basic lighting and staging while having a gorgeous, A-List cast!! Such a shame for its one Broadway revival
Enchanting and beautiful
18:28 Later
2:14:31 Send in the Clowns
Zachary Walker I love Henrik’s LATER
johntlew that’s my acting teacher!
i came for "send in the clowns"
Everyone is shouting! This is a lyrical operetta!
Bernadette Peters is up here show some respect fool.
I saw this production with Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury. There were some disappointing aspects of this revival, but I enjoyed the cast overall. Leigh Ann Larkin was a particular delight as always.
The Miller's son performer is really excellent. My favorite number by Sondheim, Vocally challenging, beautiful vibrato and pianos, light acting, very pleasant. Apart from her and Bernadette Peters I didn't quite enjoy the rest.
I just came here for Katherine McNamara and awwhh how cute she was uwu
The original 1973 production was much better, but Bernadette gave Glynis johns a run for her money. No one is near hermoine gingold though. What a character. And Glynis johns voice was perfect. And i don’t want to leave out Len Cariou, the best Sweeney too.
Agree that the 1973 production was far superior to this one. And Jean Simmons in the tour was wonderful.
The cinematography was brutal at times but I do so appreciate you posting this video and also thanks to Maryanne with the shaky hands.
It’s a BOOTLEG
@@bigred8432 I was about to say that haha
@Ken Loving The Who reference! 🥰
Particularly like Petra's 'The Miller's Son'
Betsy Morgan? Yes please!!!
I stan!!!
I find Stritch's performance hectoring and stale--I know we all tend to love the first version of anything we encounter, but I couldn't help hearing Hermione Gingold's choices and finding Stritch's uniformly inferior. (The hash she makes of Sondheim's rhyme of 'liaisons' and 'raisins'...) But Peters is so MUCH better than Zeta-Jones (whom I saw), or Johns, or Simmons. Thanks for uploading!!
I’m confused is “A Glamorous Life” not in it? Like the one Fredrika sing? Sorry just really confused. If someone could explain that would be great!
The solo version for "The Glamorous Life" was made for the movie version.
Samantha Hayes A Glamourous Life as performed here was written for Desiree and Ensemble not Frederica
Yeah, I’m confused. Why does a little girl sing that song in the musical recording but it’s not in this version?
Is there anyway I could give you my email and you could send me your video of War Paint?
Why did they have dinner on the floor though?
31:46 =It's off... I dunno what it is but it's either wrong or what...
EDIT: Looked at the Lincoln Center performance and found it. They cut 2 lines off in that part...
I saw this with Angela Lansbury, who I adore but Stritch was much better. This shoestring budget production does not do the show justice.
I actually think the pared-down style works very well for this show. It's light, airy, and fluid, letting the show breeze by like it should. The only bad thing is that the dinner scene shouldn't have been on picnic blankets. You couldn't swing for a couple of tables?
2:15:00 Send in The Clowns
What's up with the basic light plot? This show needs spectacular lighting. :(
Its filmed on a phone!
this was NOT filmed on a phone lol
@@nokocchi1983 erm it was
@@bigred8432 LMAO no phone (especially in 2010) would be used to film this. This was filmed by a professional bootlegger (NYCGator or SunsetBlvd) with an actual camera. Look at (and listen to) the zooms. This is not a phone.
Oh it has nothing to do with the camera used to record. It’s the lighting design. I saw this revival, and it was very dimly lit. Apparently Sondheim was pissed off by it during technical rehearsals. Don’t blame him. It was ridiculously hard to see the performers throughout.
Susan Stromeman’s staging for the Lincoln Center Production is much better.
Everybody’s a damn critic.... literally. Just say thank you or don’t watch- Christ.
Just say Thank You and don't read.
Didn’t Marissa McGowan do the Broadway reveal of this show
And in Act 2, no dining room table in the dining room table scene! These people eating dinner on the floor like a picnic?! The loveliest scene in the original production. Sorry, but it hurts to see a favorite show done, in my opinion, poorly.
That was my single biggest criticism after the tinny band playing such a lush score
It’s that or no show. The show is too expensive to produce commercially unfortunately
This production is so disappointingly un-lush. No excuse. Thank goodness the cast shines.
There is just no way a lush production of this show would survive without an enormous movie star at the centre. It would never make any money
@@bigred8432 didn't they swap out Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury?
@@Fopenplop When they left at the end of their contracts, they had replacements, yes. But they weren't swapped out as such.
What is up with Anne's accent?
Who produced this? On Broadway? It's so threadbare..and Stritch should have been fired -- she stumbles through her wonderful speeches and lyrics, then punches for a laugh. There are 100s of mature actresses in New York who could play Armfeldt beautifully, as required.
Even Magnus’ robe isn’t lavish enough. Poor choices.
Another thing, Stritch's hairdo. Looks like she's about to open in Company in 1970. No budget for a wig for her?!
The original Madame Armfeldt was completely bald.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor Oh yes she was - you can read about it in Sondheim's book.
The original wore a wig as though she was bald underneath. She did not play the show bald
They could have given Elaine a hat. (Does anyone still wear a hat?)
@@kennethwayne6857 I'll drink to that!
Send in the Clowns 2:39:30..
The reprise
think your missing the focus it's good story telling
Honestly, I don't get all the hate for Ramona Mallory's Anne. Yes, the accent is weird, and sometimes she is a little pitchy sometimes, but she gets a lot of the comedy really well. I honestly think she was directed to sing in a more acting way, which I appreciate. She def wasn't the worst sounding of the cast imo (Henrik is a little painful in "A Weekend in the Country").
Katherine Mcnamara? CLARY FRICKIN FRAY? 😂😱
Mmmmmh 2'31'50 until 2'32'27. Need I say why? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
4.54 ' ... the glamourISS life'? ugh.
I consider "The Miller's Son" to be one of the supreme examples of musical poetry ever written for the stage; but it does have one tiny smudge on its otherwise exquisite lyrics. I REALLY wish that Stephen Sondheim hadn't fallen into the widespread error of using the word "bosom" as a synonym for "breast". Every woman has only ONE bosom; the word can be plural only when used with reference to more than one woman. My guess would be that, when Sondheim wrote the line "...the cribs and the croup/And the ---- that droop and go dry", he felt that he had to fill the space with "bosoms", because it's a two-syllable word that sits naturally on the melodic line, while "breasts" is only one syllable. (Other great lyricists have stumbled occasionally, too. Oscar Hammerstein, in the title song of "The Sound of Music", spoke of Maria's desire "to sing through the night/Like a lark who is learning to pray." Leaving aside the fact that the image of a kneeling lark, its wing tips reverently folded, is something straight out of "Fantasia", larks are universally associated with sunrise, not night. And then there's Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady", the proponent of perfect English, declaring that Eliza "should be taken out and hung/For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue." Many of us can still hear our grade-school English teachers' voices, echoing down the years: "PICTURES ARE HUNG! PEOPLE ARE HANGED!")
That My Fair Lady one stings.
I'm in LOVE with you
He *is* using the plural to refer to multiple women
that's a fairly common usage. language evolves. and in this case i think using a nominally poetic, romantic word for lascivious effect is very appropriate for Madame Armfeldt's character, and pluralizing it underscores that definition, reminescent of the comedic derivation bazooms.
Hot guys are hung, Gonzo. It amuses me that you wait until the genius in question is dead before you attack his amateurishness with a lyric. There are those who might just hesitate to grant you the time of day. You are out of your league here. Leave be, return to the shallows with thine own harpies. Be gone.
Ms. Stritch was woefully miscast. Giving it a game go, and certainly not her fault, but just wrong for the role. And as a whole, this production seemed like a nice regional staging, certainly not the stuff of Broadway. The score suffers greatly from the reduced orchestra, it would have been better served by two pianos rather than the thin sounding tinny ensemble. Why it was received as well as it was speaks more to brilliance of the writing and Ms. Peters' stunning performance more than anything else ...
what is going on with elaine's accent here?? she plays the role like a mob boss
In a weird way that sort of works - I think Madame Armfeldt does see herself as the Godfather.
What have you ever known her to do differently?
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I did not like this re-mount. Every song felt SOOOOO slow, their accents are all over the place, and the singers weren't casually perfect like they are in the 1990 Lincoln Center version. THAT is how the show should sound...even Bernadette was struggling vocal wise and acting beats in some place. The only redeemable quality is the late, great Elaine, she is a master of Sondheim
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Oh my...the final chord of A Weekend in the Country is out of tune.
Well, the opening vocalizing was certainly a snooze....
This is what I can't stand about musical theater. I'm one of the most critical people when it comes to musical performance. But you assholes are bitter and jaded and have nothing better to do then to talk about people whose checks have already cleared for these roles, who are living their best lives, and will never meet you or care about anything you say. Let us be clear that Regina Resnik as Madam Armfeldt was a wonder and a statement when it came to that role. Let us also be clear that Elaine Stritch was a fighter of an actress who even though she did not possess the kind of singing voice that would be widely-acclaimed, could act the hell out of anything. Including this role. The idea of a wealthy matriarch who acquired that wealth through elicit propositions and affairs with pre-World War 1 royalty? Stritch suits this role perfectly. We have this idea that courtesans, even in their old age, are these existentially proper and Queen's English speaking old women. Elaine nailed the essence of what it really was. Sex work for hire with amazing Fringe benefits. One day you all will learn to stop being such douche bags about music and find something else to watch.
>continual crinkling and shaking
what the fuck is that lighting.... what a pity for such a great cast and production
Why is everything SO SLOOOOOW?! I'm completely biased to the 1990s Lincoln Center Production - that version met the GRAND SCALE of this score. Made this musical cinematic on that huuuuge stage, but here? Not at all. Felt amateurish, tempos were way too slow, voices don't match the music...not a fan.
The Anne here is awfully shrill...
Hahahahah 58:21
Peters and Stritch are stunning, but those orchestrations are appalling
Not really. Theater limitations and what do you expect from a hand held recording?
As someone who saw this production live 5 times, I can tell you that it is not the recording. I wouldn't call the orchestrations appalling, but they were very very thin. I have also heard this magnificent score played by a full orchestra and that's what it deserves. Even though Stritch and Peters were absolutely phenomenal (as were the rest of the cast for the most part...), the production value was more in line of what I expect from a good community theatre and not what is deserving of the piece.
I saw this show live, too. The orchestra was thin, as 6Hex9 mentions, and the sound amplification was horrible, cheap and tinny. Worst in the balcony, a little less terrible in the mezzanine, maybe it was OK down on the floor, I don't know. A disservice to a wonderful score.
I saw the show about a month earlier than this performance and remember it as being much better than this now looks. There's a lot of really bad acting! And a surprising amount of terrible singing. To me at least, this sounds as if an overly ambitious voice and accent coach got hold of the cast and threw people's more natural-sounding accents into disarray. Many of the cast are also very worn out vocally, voices just blown out. That could happen by a Saturday evening show, of course, but might also be from misguided (or no) vocal coaching, or struggling to be heard, or partying too hard earlier in the week.
The accents are a directorial decision
When this revival opened with Zeta-Jones and Lansbury, the entire cast was using RP accents. When Peters and Stritch took over, they dropped the RP accents. Based on the date of the video, this would have been fairly early in their run- by the time I saw it in July 2010, the accents were more natural.
Or a song in the wrong key for their voice.
Ramona Mallory's singing is sadly painful to listen to.
i really don't like this Ann very much
Great show ... camera work sucks.
Elaine is so miscast to ruin the entire proceeding.
She has not the class to make her role believable.
Steve Hinnenkamp Stephen may have been biased to cast them in this
Everyday a little death is the Worst I've heard. They ruin the musicality of Sondheim!!!
this was bad
Bernadette Peters is all wrong for this part, but at least she tries to act the part. Unfortunately, when she's not right for a part, which is often, she resorts to lots of indication, which is what she does here. Bt at least, she's far better than Elaine Strict, who plays the part of Madame Armfelt like a boozy old drunk without a bit of class. The original cast of this revival was far better.
Thanks for posting. This was the worst revival I have ever seen. Night Music is a masterpiece and at the least deserved an orchestra to do justice to the lush score, not this tinny band. Ramona Mallory gave the most awful performance I have ever seen, and Leigh Ann Larkin was almost as bad. The production was just tacky,, especially the costumes which were better suited to a funeral. Angela Lansbury was a jewel in a box of costume junk. Zeta-Jones was undistinguished and sang Send In the Clowns too forcefully.
Have you seen an orchestra pit? Try fitting a full orchestra inside one and let us know.
Other musicals have played this theater with an "orchestra".
@@ferdinandries7232 Hadestown is playing in this theater right now with a full orchestra. A Gentleman's Guide to Love ...also played there. So did Grey Gardens.
It’s because Sondheim revivals are not commercially viable. Nobody is going to revive a work like this without a major, major movie star to sell tickets. Catharine Zeta Jones was not that, you still can’t budget a giant production with her it would have to be Julia Roberts or such
I mean, you clearly didn't watch this posted version. Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones weren't in it. This recording was Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters.
Everything about this production was dreadful.
What a terrible Anne - she's pitchy, backphrases and chooses to hold notes where she shouldn't. Yikes.
You write in you Description Notes that the video, " They are all spliced very well together to make the best video possible." Surely you jest.
This copy of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is by far the worst videography ever.
The excuses of late comers is ridiculous. For thought should have inspired you to purchase seat in the front row of the Balcony. NOT three rows back.
Your camera technique would have been better by a Tweenager with GrandPa's Super 8mm film camera.
Your repeated interference with the microphone was a harsh distraction from the actors and musicians.
Appalude;
Your 100th Commenter
can you please shut up. be thankful you can watch it. would you prefer nothing?
you are literally getting to watch a recording of ALNM with Bernadette Peters for FREE! get over it
@@jimsalisbury3795 If I wanted to watch Bernadette I could take the elevator in our building down three floor and hang in the hallway. No Big. If I wanted to watch A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC this vid ain't it.
Ugh people giving a critical analysis of a bootleg how fun and unusual
Its not a copy of a little night Music, Its someone who jeopardized his ticket to film a show for future generations to experience. Bootlegging is a difficult crime, and many don’t succeed, so for you to criticize the videography of an 11 year old video - please get over it. We are lucky that this fine person took a risk, and if you think you could’ve done it better you should’ve
I loathe the British accents. Why?
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