More Sondheim for the West End
Stephen Sondheim’s 1973 musical ‘A Little Night Music’ is to transfer to the Garrick Theatre from the 28th of March. It will only run, initially, for a limited season until the 25th July. The revival was produced by the Menier Chocolate Factory under Trevor Nunn’s direction. It finishes its run at the Chocolate Factory on the 8th March and has already sold all the theatre tickets available.
It will join another Menier musical running in the West End. ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ continues its run at the Playhouse Theatre where Graham Norton continues to attract the crowds. In fact, ‘A Little Night Music’ will be the seventh Menier show to transfer to the West End in the last five years. The most successful of the previous transfers was another Sondheim show, ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ which went on to have a Broadway transfer.
The current show is inspired by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film. It is largely written in waltz time and concerns the complicated love lives of various Swedish couples at the start of the twentieth century. Perhaps the best known song in the show is ‘Send in the Clowns’ which won a Grammy Award.
The cast includes Maureen Lipman, Hannah Waddingham and Alexander Hanson, and A Little Night Music tickets are available with Concierge Desk London.