Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 9:09amCan't WAIT to hear about this one!
#2re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 9:24amThere was already a thread about this somewhere, but ljay and I will both be there. I'm sure there will be others.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#2re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 10:27amI cannot wait to hear about it either! So excited.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#3re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 10:57amYou know I'll be there.
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
#4re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 11:32am
I can't believe we'll be their first public performance, as there was no invited dress.
Exciting.
#5re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 11:34am
Very excited about Angela Lansbury.
Not so much about Catherine Zeta-Jones. I hope she's out the day I see this show.
#6re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 11:37am
^ Apparently Catherine is brilliant. But why don't you just go on one of her 2 weeks off in the Spring?
Updated On: 11/24/09 at 11:37 AM
#7re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 11:38am
There was no invited dress?? Strange...
I will be there tonight and I could not be more excited. Angela Lansbury is back on Broadway!!!
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#8re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 11:44amShe's only been gone 4 months lol.
#9re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:10pmRobinM, I honestly feel the same way about Catherine Zeta-Jones.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#10re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:15pmI'm very excited to go tonight!
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#11re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:17pm
LOL, givesmevoice! I hated her with a passion in the movie Chicago. She acted like, "Aren't I the best singer and aren't I the most gorgeous and aren't I wonderful?" and all I could think the entire time was, "You cannot sing and you look like a drag queen (not that there's anything wrong with that)."
Ugh, I just don't want to sit in that audience and cringe as she pretends to be able to sing.
#12re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:17pmI'll be there, Can't WAIT!
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#13re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:35pm
"Ugh, I just don't want to sit in that audience and cringe as she pretends to be able to sing."
You clearly have very little understanding of Desiree and her music.
If people don't want to see Zeta-Jones, then do us all a favor and STAY HOME. Or go on one of her vacations. It's simple.
#14re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:39pm
I actually think Zeta-Jones is a fairly decent singer, and an okay actress. She just doesn't come across the way I imagine Desiree, since I read her as being a little cold and smug. Unfortunately I can't plan on seeing the show because of finances, but I was intending to go see the show with her to see if I can be proven wrong.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Updated On: 11/24/09 at 12:39 PM
#15re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:41pm
"You clearly have very little understanding of Desiree and her music.
If people don't want to see Zeta-Jones, then do us all a favor and STAY HOME. Or go on one of her vacations. It's simple."
Ever hear of someone having an opinion?
#16re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:50pm
The actress playing Desiree doesn't need to be a fantastic singer. And who CARES if the actress isn't the strongest vocalist (in any show)...as long as they act the hell out of it.
And how could anyone have disliked CZJ's performance in the movie Chicago? Can't sing? Are we deaf?
I know it's just an opinion, but really?
"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"
#17re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:52pm
No, we're not deaf.
I just thought she was awful. That's all.
#18re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:52pmI Assume the stage door will be bombarded with people who aren't even seeing the show tonight to get memorabilia signed. I hope its playbills only!!! But since its the 1st preview it wont be decided right now.
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#19re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:54pmShe's a much better singer than most of the other actresses who've played Desiree.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#20re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 12:59pmI'm going tonight! :)
2010
Feb. 28 - Looped, Feb. 28 - Next to Normal, March 4 - Hair, March 11 - A Little Night Music, March 24 - Time Stands Still, April 6 - La Cage Aux Folles, April 10 - Anyone Can Whistle (City Center), April 10 - Looped, May 9 - Enron, May 15 - A Little Night Music, May 15 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Little Night Music, June 20 - A Little Night Music, June 23 - Red, June 23 - Sondheim on Sondheim, July 13 - A Little Night Music, July 18 - The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center)
#21re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 1:11pm
Have they announced the cast yet?
I hope they don't bring over Hannah Waddingham - I think she's too young for the role.
#22re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 1:13pmYah! Summer 2009 go away!
2010
Feb. 28 - Looped, Feb. 28 - Next to Normal, March 4 - Hair, March 11 - A Little Night Music, March 24 - Time Stands Still, April 6 - La Cage Aux Folles, April 10 - Anyone Can Whistle (City Center), April 10 - Looped, May 9 - Enron, May 15 - A Little Night Music, May 15 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Little Night Music, June 20 - A Little Night Music, June 23 - Red, June 23 - Sondheim on Sondheim, July 13 - A Little Night Music, July 18 - The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center)
#23re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 2:05pm
Oh it's already been decided--CZJ and AL are only signing ALNM stuff. :)
And, let's please not review CZJ BEFORE actually seeing her, eh?
#24re: Anyone going to the first preview of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC tonight?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 3:44pmI edited the title of my other thread; this can become the official first preview topic (even though mine was posted before yours).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
