A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973, and closed on August 3, 1974 after 601 performances and 12 previews.

In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

The score for A Little Night Music has elements not often found in musical theater, presenting challenges for performers, with complex meters, pitch changes, polyphony, and high notes for both males and females.

There is a Mozart reference in the title — A Little Night Music is an occasionally used translation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the nickname of Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525.

Bernadette Peters steps into the six-month-old revival of ' A Little Night Music ' with a transfixing performance, playing it as if she realizes her character's onstage billing -- " the one and only Desiree Armfeldt " -- is cliched hyperbole.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.

Leslie Caron, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, théâtre du Châtelet, 2010.

* 2010: A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, director Lee Blakeley, Théâtre du Châtelet

In children's literature, Maurice Sendak has said that this strip inspired his book In the Night Kitchen, and William Joyce included several elements from Little Nemo in his children's book Santa Calls, including appearances by Flip and the walking bed.

They include The Wiz, At Long Last Love, Funny Lady ( Barbra Streisand's sequel to Funny Girl ), A Little Night Music and Hair amongst others.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

Sondheim's work is notable for his use of complex polyphony in the vocal parts, such as the chorus of five minor characters who function as a sort of Greek chorus in 1973's A Little Night Music.

A Little Night Music ( 1973 ), a more traditionally plotted show based on the film Smiles of a Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman, was one of his greatest successes.

) Further success was accorded to A Little Night Music when " Send in the Clowns " became a hit single for Judy Collins.

Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ), Sondheim's most operatic score and libretto ( which, along with A Little Night Music, has been seen in opera houses ), once again explores an unlikely topic, this time murderous revenge and cannibalism.

In March 2008, Sondheim and Rich appeared in four interviews / conversations in California and Portland, Oregon titled " A Little Night Conversation with Stephen Sondheim ".

* A Little Night Music ( 1973 ) ( book by Hugh Wheeler ; directed by Hal Prince )

* A Little Night Music, ( 1977 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work.

It featured songs from many of his musicals, including a performance of " Send in the Clowns " from A Little Night Music by Judi Dench ( reprising her role as Desirée from the 1995 production of that musical ), and performances from many other stars of opera, Broadway, stage and screen, including Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman.

* A Little Night Music ( 1973 Best Score )

* Salieri's supposed hatred for Mozart is also alluded to in a spoof opera entitled A Little Nightmare Music, by P. D. Q.

In 2002 he played on a CD Music Drama of the band " My Little Cheap Dictaphone " La Médiatheque de Belgique.

* A Little Night Music ( 1972 – 73, Outstanding Music and Lyrics )

" Send in the Clowns " is a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night.

* The Little Prince, 1973 ( screenwriter / lyricist )

In 1973, Gelman would publish a collection of Little Nemo strips in Italy.

* Rubenstein, Richard E. Left Turn: Origins of the Next American Revolution ( Boston: Little, Brown, 1973 ).

On March 5, 1973, Donald DeFreeze escaped prison and future SLA members Russell Little and Willy Wolfe took him to Soltysik's house because unlike their other associates, Soltysik didn't visit the prisons.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Jamie Redfern-" The Little White Cloud That Cried "( 1971 ), " When You Wish Upon A Star "( 1971 ), " Rainbow On The River "( 1972 ), " Venus "( 1973 ), " Hello, Funny Face "( 1973 ), " Hitch A Ride On A Smile ( 1973 )" " Jenny ( 1974 )"

It included the title track and his first solo chart hit, " I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby ", which also rose to # 1 on the Billboard R & B charts as well as # 3 on the Billboard Pop charts in 1973 and stayed in the top 40 for many weeks.

" in 1965 ; on I Spy, in the episode " Little Boy Lost ", in 1966 ; and as an underage Marine on M * A * S * H, in the episode " Sometimes You Hear the Bullet ", in 1973.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

* The Little Hotel: A Novel ( 1973 )

In 1973, Gelman would publish a collection of Little Nemo strips in Italy.

The " Little Vegas " area built for American POWs in 1967, shown in a final inspection in 1973 shortly before the Americans ' release

* 1973 A Little Night Music ( Tony Award for best musical actress ), Broadway

Nilsson's disregard for commercialism in favor of artistic satisfaction showed itself in his next release, A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night ( 1973 ).

* A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night ( 1973 )

** Z-Chen 張智成 / 张智成 ( 1973 -; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Zhong Zhi Shin ), Singer ; Known as " The Little Prince of R & B "

In 1973, Brown and his wife retired in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he devoted his time to writing.