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 from an Original Cast Album )

* 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.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

`` Little Rock is a vile, detestable place.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

Little is known of the synthetic mechanisms for formation of thyroglobulin.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

Little is known of the territorial behaviour of caecilians but some frogs and salamanders defend home ranges.

In some stories the question of whether formal justice will be done is left unresolved, such as Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.

Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.

Little is known on their relationship, but Crispus soon died and left his estate to Nero.

Little is known about the Gutian period, or how long it endured.

Little is known about Ammonius's role in the development of Neoplatonism.