A Little Night Music Broadway Show Review

Show Summary
Romances and revelations arise when friends, family, enemies, and lovers all get together for a weekend in the country in this witty musical, based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night.

Broadway Review
This Trevor Nunn-directed revival of the Stephen Sondheim / Hugh Wheeler Broadway musical (which features Sondheim's best known song, "Send in the Clowns") is a bit too slow and colorless, which is an unwelcome reminder that A Little Night Music has always been lacking in warmth. Frustration, elation, jealousy, hurt, and longing are all displayed prominently in this tryst-filled comedy of romantic entanglement, but love barely figures into it. However, the production does include fine performances by its most prominent stars, Catherine Zeta-Jones as a glamorous but aging actress, and Angela Lansbury as her disapproving mother.

Blithe Spirit Broadway Show Review

Show Summary
Noel Coward's 1941 play Blithe Spirit is a witty comedy about a novelist who, after participating in a seance, finds that he is being haunted by his his dead first wife (much to the chagrin of his current, living wife!).

Broadway Review
This is a wonderful opportunity to see the marvelous Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote, Gaslight) play a very wacky medium and to catch actor Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding) being droll as ever live onstage. The production starts off a little slow, but once the ghostly shenanigans begin, it becomes increasingly hectic and hilarious.