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

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.

The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in his honor on December 5, 2001.

The Great Belt Fixed Link ( opened in 1997 ) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge ( opened in 1970 ) connecting Funen and Jutland have improved the traffic flow across the country on both motorways and rail.

In 1905, the first pizza establishment in the United States was opened in New York's Little Italy.

In the Forties he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled E poi venne il diluvio and another one titled La piccola fiammiferaia ( 1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl ), distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's Attack!

Also referred to informally as " St. Francis Xavier Junior College " or " Xavier Junior College " ( XJC ) and colloquially as " Little X ", the St. Francis Xavier University Sydney Campus was situated in Sydney's central business district and saw several buildings opened as a result of growth during its first decade of operation.

In Bruna's hometown, Utrecht, there is a square named after Nijntje, the Nijntjepleintje ( lit: Little Nijntje Square, to retain the rhyme ) and in 2006, the Centraal Museum opened a permanent exhibition, the dick bruna huis ( Dick Bruna house ).

In 1795, Bejamin Outram opened the Little Eaton Gangway upon which coal was carried in wagons built at his Butterley Ironworks.

The museum opened on September 2, 1995, with the ribbon being cut by an ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others.

About the time this section was opened up, others came in and settled along Lynches Creek, Little Lynches creek, Flat Creek, Beaver Creek, and lower Camp Creek.

A daughter church called Little St. Peter's was opened in 1958 on Claremont Way and closed in 1983.

Beginning in early 1967, a new area of the prison was opened for incoming American POWs ; it was dubbed " Little Vegas ", and its individual buildings and areas were named after Las Vegas Strip landmarks, such as " Golden Nugget ," " Thunderbird ," " Stardust ," " Riviera ," and the " Desert Inn.

Schools in Thurrock include ; The Ockendon Academy, Chafford Hundred Campus, Gable Hall School, Gateway Academy, Grays Convent High School, William Edwards School & Sports College, Grays School Media Arts College, Deneholm Primary, Little Thurrock Primary, Quarry Hill Infant and Junior, St Thomas Of Canterbury Catholic Primary, Stifford Clays Infant and Junior, Stifford Primary, Thameside Infant and Junior School, Tudor Court Primary School, Warren Primary School, Chafford Hundred Primary School, Woodside Primary School ( which was opened in 1952 as Tyrell's Infant and Junior Schools, the names being changed to avoid confusion with the neighbouring Torell's Secondary School ; the schools were later amalgamated into one primary school ) and Treetops School.

Fulham Davies, stockbroker in Hot Springs, later opened the Merrill Lynch office in Little Rock and kept it intact during the Great Depression.

" The revamped Missionary Baptist Seminary thereafter opened in Little Rock.

However, Cabot experienced growth during the 1950s and 1960s, due to its proximity to the Little Rock Air Force Base in nearby Jacksonville which opened in 1955.

The Little Ski Hill was the second ski area in Idaho, after Sun Valley, which opened a year earlier.

A post office named " Little Prairie Ronde " ( after the prairie on whose edge it stood ) was opened in November 1837.

Areas of interest in Garden City include the first Kmart store ( opened 1962 and still in use ), the first Little Caesars ( also still in use ), and the first dine-in McDonalds in Michigan.

The Blue Scholars have opened for and shared stages with such artists as De La Soul, Slick Rick, Kanye West, Immortal Technique, Masta Ace, Mos Def and Little Brother.

* The Little Show Broadway revue opened at the Music Box Theatre on April 30 and ran for 321 performances

* Little Nellie Kelly London production opened at the New Oxford Theatre on July 2 and ran for 265 performances

* Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances

* A Little Dutch Girl opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 1 and ran for 207 performances