Seen and Heard

Seen on Broadway: An afterlife of repertory productions has culminated in the long-awaited return to the Main Stem of Stephen Sondheim’s 1973 masterpiece A Little Night Music. Few musicals are better balanced: Sondheim’s Tony-winning music is perfectly matched by Hugh Wheeler’s Tony-winning book, which was adapted from Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. The Scandinavia-set production concerns imperfect matches. The middle-aged lawyer Frederik (Alexander Hanson) is chastely, and unhappily, married to 18-year-old Anne (Ramona Mallory), who has more in common with Frederik’s tormented son Henrik (Hunter Ryan Herdlicka). Part of Henrik’s torment comes from ...

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