I was in the theater box for this performance and can't imagine why anyone would say anything but great things about it - personally loved it and loved the casting

This production was an embarrassment. This being my top ever for everything musical, the ONLY version that matters is the 90's Lincoln Center performance. THAT is magical. This is, to quote @eoselan7, "Budget basement production"

This budget basement production proves that less is less. Look for the original, and see this beautiful show truly come to life.

Of all shows, A Little Night Music is NOT the one to do on a shoestring budget, especially with a barebones orchestra. It loses so much.

As lovely as Sondheim's score for "A Little Night Music" unquestionably is, and as visually beautiful as the original production in 1973 was (especially Florence Klotz's jewel-colored costumes), they all pale next to Ingmar Bergman's magnificent 1955 film "Smiles of a Summer Night", on which the musical is based. (Among its numerous felicities, it features five of the most beautiful women ever seen together in one film -- and I'm including Naima Wifstrand who plays Madame Armfeldt, who had a more fascinating face in her old age than most women do at 25.).The screenplay is filled with pointed epigrams, as well as poetic lines and speeches, that collectively leave Hugh Wheeler's libretto for the Broadway show somewhere east of Suez. I've always wondered how a full-dress production that combined Sondheim's score, Klotz's costumes, and Bergman's script would be. Copyright law being the intractable thing it is, we will almost certainly never know.

Unfortunately - oh yes indeed - I have lost my dvd with the complete performance of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC starring Len Cariou and Glynis Johns .... I do have the 1990 restored tape ... so, if someone should own the Cariou-Johns excellent version please let me find it in YouiTube with my deepest thanks.

I don't suppose this is available on video somewhere in full for purchase? I loved Lansbury.

still upset there was no tour

Angela lansbury is in everything ☺

A shoestring budget production doesn't cut it. To scale down the orchestra is a crime. This was the only time Angela Lansbury disappointed me. At least I have my memories of the original production. Saw it twice on Broadway and the national tour once.

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Why on earth are they all in black for "Weekend in the Country"? What a dreadful costuming choice.

JUST WATCHED THE MOVIE VERSION...IT SUCKED....

This production was a monumental misfire, the only things that stop it from sucking the entire life out of the show are Catherine Zeta Jones, Angela Lansbury and the score of course!

Catherine is NOT made to sing. So deadpan!

I sampled some songs. It would be torture for me to sit through this terrible stuff! I do like good musicals of which these so called songs too weird.