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‘A Little Night Music’ goes to Paris

Here is a brief video clip containing scenes from the production of A Little Night Music that is playing a strictly limited engagement this week at the Théâtre du Châtelet. This marks the Paris debut of the Sondheim-Wheeler classic, which is also currently a sell-out in a new Broadway revival (by way of London). Gretta Sacchi is Desiree; Leslie Caron her mother Madame Armfeldt. It’s a full-scale production with sets, costumes, 31 piece orchestra and it’s being performed in English. The theatre’s youtube channel has a lot of other clips, including interviews with the cast and clips from other productions they have done.

Our very own KariG is currently in Paris and will be seeing this production tomorrow evening; looking forward to what she has to say about it (she’s a tough cookie on this one – it’s her favorite musical).

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 1:12 pm.
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Leslie Caron


Leslie Caron, star of so many classic films, has released a memoir about her life called Thank Heaven. Trained as a ballerina, she got her big break at the age of 20 as a last minute substitute for a pregnant Cyd Charisse in An American in Paris, which launched her exceptional film career, including memorable turns in Lili (Oscar nomination), Daddy Long Legs, Gaby, Gigi (another Best Picture), Fanny, The L-Shaped Room (Oscar nomination) and Father Goose (among many others). She’s also one of the few actresses to have danced on screen with both Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Living in semi-retirement, Caron still acts on occasion winning an Emmy award for a guest appearance on Law and Order: SVU in 2007. She also maintained a bed and breakfast called Auberge La Lucarne aux Chouettes in Burgundy. The daughter of an American dancer from Topeka, Caron recently became an American citizen after discovering that she was eligible. This winter, she will play Madame Armfeldt in the first-ever Paris production of A Little Night Music with Kristin Scott Thomas. While I would love to go over to see this one, I’ll be relying on our very own Kari for a full report come February.

Caron is currently on a book tour in the United States, and was in New York over the past couple of days. She spoke and signed at Barnes and Noble Lincoln Center last evening, and also was interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC. The charming, elegant actress talks very frankly about herself, her career, her romances (including an affair with Warren Beatty) and problems with drinking and depression.

Posted on December 2, 2009 at 4:45 am.
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Walking Among My Yesterdays - 2011

1/19 - Avenue Q

1/25 - Knickerbocker Holiday (Collegiate Chorale)

1/30 - Chicago (Fan Day)

2/13 - La Cage Aux Folles

3/8 - Kate Baldwin & Sheldon Harnick: She Loves Him (Feinstein's)

3/12 - Kate Baldwin & Sheldon Harnick: She Loves Him (Feinstein's)

3/30 - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

4/6 - High

4/20 - Born Yesterday

4/27  - The People in the Picture

5/4 - Sister Act

5/4 - The Normal Heart

5/11 - Lombardi

5/19 - Something Wonderful: An Evening of Broadway (Carnegie Hall)

6/3 - Marilyn Maye: It's Maye in May (Feinstein's)

7/14 - Kate Baldwin & Sheldon Harnick: She Loves Him CD release (Feinstein's)

7/27 - Around the World in 80 Days (HVSF)

8/2 - Hamlet (HVSF)

8/7 - Follies (first preview)

8/20 - Jerusalem

8/27 - Sammy Gets Mugged (Fringe)

9/4 - Master Class (closing)

9/11 - Mary Poppins

9/12 - Follies (opening night)

9/16 - The Life and Death of King John (NY Shakespeare Exchange)

10/10 - Give Our Regards to Broadway (Manhattan School of Music)

10/16 - Broadway Originals (Town Hall)

10/17 - Carole Demas: Summer Nights (Laurie Beechman Theatre)

10/26 - Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway

10/27 - Follies

10/30 - Chinglish

11/12 - Follies

11/18 - Annie Get Your Gun (Walter Panas Players)

Walking Among My Yesterdays - 2010

  • 1/3 - Ragtime
  • 1/20 - Tyne Daly: The Second Time Around (Feinstein's)
  • 2/6 - Betty Buckley: For the Love of Broadway! (Feinstein's)
  • 2/7 - Fanny (Encores!)
  • 2/27 - Yank!
  • 3/2 - God of Carnage
  • 3/8 - Kate Baldwin at Birdland
  • 4/3 - Lend Me a Tenor
  • 4/11 - Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!)
  • 4/23 - Collected Stories
  • 5/19 - Mitzi Gaynor: The Razzle Dazzle Years (Feinstein's)
  • 5/26 - Next Fall
  • 6/20 - A Little Night Music
  • 6/25 - The Bomb-itty of Errors (HVSF)
  • 7/31 - A Little Night Music
  • 8/21 - I Do! I Do! (Westport Country Playhouse)
  • 8/27 - Our Town (Barrow Street)
  • 9/25 - Brief Encounter
  • 10/7 - The Scottsboro Boys (first preview)
  • 11/6 - Lucky to Be Me: The Music of Leonard Bernstein (City Opera)
  • 11/19 - NY Pops' Stephen Sondheim Birthday Bash (Carnegie Hall)
  • 12/12 - The Scottsboro Boys (closing)

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