A Little Night Music - Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Michael Kuchwara
  from The Associated Press
  December 14, 2009

  ‘‘The luminous [Angela] Lansbury is a wonder. The 84-year-old actress does something extraordinary, too: her Madame Armfeldt progressively gets more frail as the evening progresses...the aging process has never been more eloquently put on display.’’

• Review by David Rooney
  from Variety
  December 14, 2009

  ‘‘"Bewitching, confident and utterly natural, [Catherine Zeta-Jones] breathes a refreshing earthiness and warm-blooded sensuality into the part [of Desiree]."’’

• Review by Ben Brantley
  from The New York Times
  December 14, 2009

  ‘‘"Sondheim's score...suggests echoes from a distant era. [Angela Lansbury] seems to melt into memory itself. It's a lovely example of the past reaching out to the present."’’

• Review by Scott Brown
  from New York Magazine
  December 14, 2009

  ‘‘“Half-light can be forgiving—to the aging, to the vain, to the furtive philanderer—but in Trevor Nunn’s stunning, twilit, devastatingly good new production of A Little Night Music, it’s as punishing as the equatorial sun. He’s clearly trying to induce an exquisitely heartbreaking case of seasonal affective disorder in his audience, and, fiendishly, he succeeds.”’’

• Review by Frank Scheck
  from The Hollywood Reporter
  December 13, 2009

  ‘‘“Zeta-Jones is captivating as Desiree. The actress has musical theater experience, and it shows; she has terrific stage presence, unlike so many movie stars who tread the boards, and she sings and moves beautifully.”’’