Trevor Nunn to direct 'A Little Night Music.' Emma Thompson as Desiree?
Trevor Nunn to direct 'A Little Night Music.' Emma Thompson as Desiree?
#1Trevor Nunn to direct 'A Little Night Music.' Emma Thompson as Desiree?
Posted: 2/16/08 at 4:45pm
At the Menier Chocolate factory in London. If it's good, it could transfer to the West End, and then maybe Broadway! And we could finally have our Night Music revival. I hope it works out like SUNDAY.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981019.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
Updated On: 2/16/08 at 04:45 PM
#2re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 7:17pm
Someone posted on ATC that Emma Thompson is in final negotiations to play Desiree.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1530508
Updated On: 2/16/08 at 07:17 PM
#2re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 7:19pm.. Updated On: 2/16/08 at 07:19 PM
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#3re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 7:21pmI just fell in love with this show. Though I do wish they'd wait, so I could play Henrik - ha.
#4re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 7:41pmoh my god. what I wouldn't give to see this!
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#5re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 8:25pmThis sounds terrific!
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#6re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:14pmThey need a great Frederick to play opposite Emma!
#7re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:35pmSounds great! I can't get to the UK, but if this has a transfer to Broadway, I'm going!
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#8re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:37pmYes please!
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#9re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 10:14pm
Do they make and serve chocolate at that place?
I am dying to go there, sounds interesting.
#10re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 11:11pmOMG OMG OMG OMG!! Please let this be real....and transfer to Broadway so that I could see it....Emma Thompson is one of my all time favorites! She will be brilliant, I have no doubt.
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Posted: 2/16/08 at 11:50pm
Glenn Close has been attached to a Nunn staging of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC since last year, though complications with her television show could throw a wrench into things.
Emma Thompson would be divine.
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#12re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/16/08 at 11:55pmGlenn Close is about 10 years too old for Desiree. Emma is much more appropriate.
#13re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:31amWhat of Fredrick? Any rumors?
#14re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:55am
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sondheim. Emma Thompson. **Actr dies happy**
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#15re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:27amI think it would be inspired casting.
#16re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:28amI didn't know she could sing. She'll probably be really great though. It's Trevor Nunn that worries me, sometimes.
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Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:50am
Thompson would make an ideal Desiree, she has the perfect mixture of sexiness, comic chops, broadness, and dramatic flair that the role needs.
Close is not only completely wrong for the part but too old for it, and I'm actually a fan of her work, just please no Desiree.
And yes, Nunn is the one that worries me, the idea of him getting his hands on Sondheim's great operetta kind of irks me. Oh well, at least it's not another Doyle.
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#18re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 9:31amEma Thompson does sing- some- but Desiree is not a vocally demandind role. It's more of an acting part.
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#19re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 9:35amShe was in Me and My Girl. You can hear her on the cast recording.
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#20re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:56pmDesiree was more or less written for a non-singer so vocal experience shouldn't get in the way of this dream casting.
#21re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:58pm
Exactly, Desiree only sings in 4 songs. Its mostly spoken-sung phrases. She really doesn't have to sustain many notes.
She does need to be a fabulous actress though. Like Glynis Johns, Judi Dench, etc.
#22re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 2:02pmYeah that's true, I've read in interviews Sondheim has gone so far as to say it doesnt's ound right to him when an actual "singer" sings "Send In The Clowns." The original Desiree wasn't much of a singer, and the role was written accordingly.
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Posted: 2/17/08 at 3:21pm
Judi Dench's "SITC" on youtube from "Hey! Mr Producer!" is absolutely out of this world.
Any chance of this opening before mid-May?
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#24re: Trevor Nunn has commited to direct 'A Little Night Music.'
Posted: 2/17/08 at 3:29pmif it comes to bway it should so be in the Vivian Beaumont, i love that place, the space is so open...
