Walter Kerr Theater

Angela Lansbury, Catherine Zeta-Jones (her Broadway debut!) and Alexander Hanson take a bow.

At the current revival of A Little Night Music, directed by Trevor Nunn, I imagine that even the front row felt far away from the stage.  A come-tragedy of manners taking place in turn-of-the-last-century Scandinavia, the musical depicts a world in which people are acutely divorced from their surroundings, and only exist in their neurotic perceptions of themselves.  Every interpersonal relationship is horrifyingly complex, and characters agonize and rhapsodize over minutia, completely oblivious to the furious inner-monologue taking place in the mind of whoever’s beside them.  It’s a little bit like real life, actually. [click to continue…]

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