First Look: A Weekend In The Country

[MusicalBoy81]

@HelenaKoonings and @andrewwinans Leigh Ann is actually the blonde at 00:42 on the ground with the suitcases on the right towards the Egermans with an apron on. Yeah the camera moves around so much it's hard to see. I would have loved to seen this

[v0zbox]

This looks mediocre at best. ALNM definitely requires a cast of singers who can act (as opposed to actors who can sing) to carry the score, which almost seems more like operetta than musical theatre to me. Especially with this particularly bare-bones pit orchestra, the thinness of some of the actors' voices is really apparent (and KZJ is clearly just gumming along at the end).

[sondheimisGAWD]

the five hours aaron lazar spends with erin davies is the time he spends away from me. LORD, that man is sexy!

[beautifullytragic1]

I actually like the restraint in the orchestration. It sort of carries with the subtext of the musical itself.

Either way you look at it, A Little Night Music is sophisticated. Beautiful, elegant, charming and sophisticated.

[TheatreFanatic4eva]

katherine is so cute, glad she's coming back :)

[thearter12]

@TheatreFanatic4eva Kathrine Doherty is coming back to ALNM?! 

[TheatreFanatic4eva]

@thearter12 haha yep she came back a month ago :)

[thearter12]

@TheatreFanatic4eva omg really i thought the only Fredrikas are Katherine McNamara, and Keaton Whittaker!! :] haha

[andrewwinans]

Can anybody point out Leigh Ann Larkin to me in this, I can't seem to find her unless I'm crazy. Is that her at 0:49 folding a blanket on the ground?

[HelenaKoonings]

@andrewwinans No, the one up front with brown hair at 0:30 if I'm not mistaken.

[tomjomoore]

@lavalamp625 A saxophone doesn't feature in the orchestrations it is an english horn. But no matter the opinion you can't say that for this productions the orchestrations are beautiful I saw this production in london where the revival opened first and it worked better then the original, better direction and just a lot more elegant

[tomjomoore]

@lavalamp625 A saxophone doesn't feature in the orchestrations it is an english horn. But no matter the opinion you can't say that for this productions the orchestrations are beautiful I saw this production in london where the revival opened first and it worked better then the original, better direction and just a lot more elegant

[kphoenix5942]

@citrusbust lol

[KaraokeKid22]

It's weird I know how producers are getting more and more cheap on the amount of musicians they are willing to pay salaries for, but these orchestrations I think give the show a more reserved feel, with all the power coming from the woodwinds and french horn, there being no brass section, but these are by far some of the better orchestration of the day by Jason Carr, who also did the La Cage revival, considering smaller is sadly the way Broadway is heading, but I

[KaraokeKid22]

don't think in this case it takes away from it, it only gives it a more reserved feel, as opposed to loud and big, not that loud and big is ever bad, it's just not what lovers of theoriginal album are familiar with. It's not like they're empty and terrible like those of Shrek, just smaller.

[me254065]

@KaraokeKid22 He adds extra instruments for the cast recording of ALNM to beef it all out.

[WWEQAF]

I love this song, kinda wnat to see Night Music, any thoughts...?

[pmcmahon26]

@WWEQAF I saw the production a few weeks ago and thought it was fantastic. A fantastc cast and just an all around gorgeous production. Definitely worth it.

[lavalamp625]

they left out the final modulation!! ughh

plus the sax just doesnt work for me in this song

[altodivo]

Hannah Waddingham was Desiree in this production in London and I can't help missing her here.

[boynamedalexxx]

@altodivo I like Waddinham, but if people complained about Zeta-Jones being too young for this role, Waddingham definitely was as well. As for her performance, I can't say, as I live in the US and didn't see her in the role...I did like her as the Witch in "Into The Woods", though.

[thearter12]

KATHERINE DOHERTY!!!! (great performer)

[starryeyeschick]

I was lucky enough to see this last night - and it was AMAZING! I'd seen a production of the show in California three years earlier, but I knew I had to see Catherine and Angela on Broadway. Needless to say, I was not disappointed - especially sitting in the 7th row. If you have the chance to see this show, TAKE IT!! :D

[EASTBANK100]

I was lucky enough to have seen Glynis Johns and Hermoine Gingold in the original . Wish I still lived in NYC so I could experience this production.

[rbocanegra62]

this reminds me of John Huston's last film..."the dead"

[kphoenix5942]

Sondheim wrote a lush, impressionistic score. None of that smoothness is carried over into this chamber orchestration. :(

[iamupforallfun]

Sondheim doesn't write the orchestrations. Tunick wrote the original orchestrations. Thank him for the lushness of the original. The new chamber orchestrations sound much better in the theater.

[kphoenix5942]

I didn't say Sondheim orchestrated it. I was referring to the idea that when one writes a score with such deference to Ravel, Chopin and Schubert, maybe don't orchestrate it like Steve Reich.

[ByFarJustHonest]

Oh the genius of marketing a star! I bet if they cast Harvey Fierstein as Tony in the Revival of WEST SIDE STORY some of you would say "He so looks the part and is such a great fit with Phyllis Diller as Maria."

[ByFarJustHonest]

Go to the country for longer than a weekend. We'll give Michael Douglas the directions. Thus far not happy I bought the advanced tickets.

[MrMproft]

Catherine is an actress playing an actress,so if course she "acts" like that orangepeas, just the right mix of sensual and funny, bravo Catherine!

[orangepeas]

Please tell me Catherine Zeta Jones doesn't act like that all the time? She's destroying it. Hannah Waddingham was incredible, this doesn't even compare.

[pmcmahon26]

Favorite song in the whold show =)

[mammalzzz]

Ms. Zeta-Jones is impeccable - her casting here was a no-brainer. She is a ravishing Desiree. And Ms. Lansbury? She and Sondheim have always been a match made in heaven, and this seems to be no exception. I'm surprised she's never been asked to play Madame Armfeldt before. I'm also really looking forward to seeing Erin Davie as Charlotte - I've been a fan ever since her turn in GREY GARDENS (for which she should have been nominated for the Tony!). Hopefully this year will be her turn!

[OldieMusicMan]

I have no idea why somebody gave you a negative. Yours was a great comment.