Tomorrow marks the release of the new Broadway cast recording of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music. To mark the occasion, Sondheim and the cast of A Little Night Music, including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury, and Alexander Hanson, will sign copies of the album at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Tonight, Sondheim presents the O'Neill's Monte Cristo Award to director/producer Hal Prince. Next week, Lansbury will receive the Signature Theatre's Stephen Sondheim Award.
Tomorrow, April 6, marks the Nonesuch Records / PS Classics release of the new Broadway cast recording of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music. To mark the occasion, Sondheim and the cast of A Little Night Music, including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury, and Alexander Hanson, will sign copies of the album at the Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 West 48th Street, in New York City, beginning promptly at 2 PM and ending at 3:30 PM. For more information on the event, read the recent announcement in the Nonesuch Journal.
For those of you outside of New York or unable to make the event, A Little Night Music is available here in the Nonesuch Store, with high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album included with the CD purchase at no additional cost.
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Tonight, Stephen Sondheim will be at the O'Neill Theater Center's 2010 Monte Cristo Award Dinner to present the award to famed director/producer Hal Prince. Tonight's gala events include a reception, gala dinner and award presentation, and performance at Bridgewaters in New York City's South Stree Seaport. The two theater legends have worked together for more than half a century, going back to the original production of West Side Story, for which Sondheim wrote the lyrics and which Prince produced. Prince went on to direct and produce the original Broadway productions of Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Company, Follies, Pacific Overtures, and Merrily We Roll Along and directed the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd. Proceeds from tonight's event will support the O'Neill's many theater development programs.
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Sondheim himself is set to receive the first-ever SAGE Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Award next Wednesday, April 14, in a reception at Brasserie Cognac in New York City, followed by a performance of the new musical retrospective Sondheim on Sondheim at Studio 54. Proceeds from the event will benefit SAGE, Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders. For more information, visit sageusa.org.
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Earlier that week, on Monday, April 12, Angela Lansbury will receive the inaugural Stephen Sondheim Award from the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. The award, established last year, will be presented at a black-tie Gala Benefit at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bernadette Peters will be evening's honorary hosts. The event includes tribute performances from Jason Danieley, Sherri L. Edelen, Victor Garber, and Marin Mazzie, and will benefit Signature Theatre’s artistic, education, and community outreach programs.
Stephen Sondheim has stated, "Angela Lansbury's first appearance on the musical stage was in a show called Anyone Can Whistle, for which I wrote the score. That appearance was a gift to the musical theater, although perhaps not such a gift to her, since the show only ran for nine performances. I am thrilled that Signature Theatre is helping me make it up to her by giving her the first Stephen Sondheim Award.”
Fore more information, visit signature-theatre.org.
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