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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by: MeredithChandler1973 07:08 am EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - MarkBearSF 03:43 am EDT 09/10/14

I was confused by this post. Anna Kendrick was in the 2003 NYCO Revival of the show while Ferland was in the 1990 production. Did you see both? Was the 2003 production filmed and aired?

I saw the 1990 NYCO on TV and it's one of the reasons A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is one of my favorite Sondheim musicals. I saw the Kennedy Center production in 2002 and the recent Broadway revival (with Zeta-Jones/Lansbury and Peters/Stritch), but none of them are as perfect to me as the original NYCO production. I do wish I had seen the LA Opera cast (Judith Ivey, Victor Garber) as that does seem pretty perfect as well.


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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by: MarkBearSF 12:23 pm EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - MeredithChandler1973 07:08 am EDT 09/10/14

Thanks for clearing that up.
I was basing it on the Wikipedia entry and they evidently conflated the two productions. (or I likely misread) I really wouldn't recognize Anna Kendrick who was listed, but was certain that Henrik was NOT Jeremy Irons as mentioned.


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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by: Ann 12:52 pm EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - MarkBearSF 12:23 pm EDT 09/10/14

Not to mention that Kendrick would have been 5 years old ;)


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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by: larry13 07:55 am EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - MeredithChandler1973 07:08 am EDT 09/10/14

If it was in 2003 that I saw the NYCO do NIGHT MUSIC, I thought it was pretty bad despite several wonderful performers(e.g. Pawk and Kudisch). Juliet Stevenson was miscast as Desiree, Claire Bloom was at sea as her mother, Jeremy Irons isn't a singer and the whole thing suffered from being done in a huge theater with poor acoustics and in the(typical?)misguided NYCO way with operettas.


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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by: lordofspeech 10:08 am EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - larry13 07:55 am EDT 09/10/14

I too saw the Juliet Stevenson Jeremy Irons production. And it just didn't do it for me. And I don't know why. Maybe it was "miscasting." Maybe Jeremy Irons was too urbane and self-aware? Maybe Juliet S has too much air and not enough earth? Maybe the fullness of the acting was more than the style and the story could bear? Maybe the space was too big, and I was too far away? I just remember being slightly disappointed.
However, I never saw it as caught on videotape. That might've focused it.


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