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Catherine Zeta-Jones Wardrobe Malfunction Wows Audience
21 December 2009 8:55 AM, PST
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Super sexy actress Catherine Zeta-Jones gave some audience members at her Broadway play a scene to remember when a wardrobe malfunction briefly exposed her breasts. Zeta-Jones — and her breasts — are debuting in the Sir Trevor Nunn production of A Little Night Music, at the Walter Kerr Theater. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler created the show, called an “erotic waltz,” when it first debuted in 1973. The revival began at the Menier studio theatre in south London last year. The show is set in a Swedish country house at the turn of the century, and was inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Zeta-Jones plays Desiree Armfeldt, a flamboyant actress who sings the show-stopping ballad “Send in the Clowns.” Angela Landsbury also stars.
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What to say about … Catherine Zeta-Jones in A Little Night Music
16 December 2009 8:53 AM, PST
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She's got the chops and the charisma, but is Ze-Jo subtle enough for Sondheim's Send in the Clowns? The critics are doubtful
She can slink about in Lycra for Sean Connery's viewing pleasure; she can glare feistily from behind her sabre; she can dance her way into the Academy's favours; she can even shake genetics to its very foundations by convincing people that she is the daughter of David Jason and Pam Ferris.
But there is a feeling among the critics that Catherine Zeta-Jones may have strayed a little outside her range when she took on the role of Desiree in Trevor Nunn's Broadway transfer of A Little Night Music. "With its complex score and no conventional showstoppers, [Stephen Sondheim's musical] requires the skills of a seasoned stage actor," the Guardian's Emma Brockes observes. "And while … Zeta-Jones can act and sing, she can't do both at once."
Ingmar Bergman's tale
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Singing and acting, but not at the same time – Zeta-Jones falters on Broadway
14 December 2009 1:54 AM, PST
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Playing the daughter to Angela Lansbury's ancient mother, the Hollywood star is unconvincing as a rejected lover
Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, directed by Trevor Nunn and the biggest opening in New York this season, is a tough gig for a Broadway debut, even for a movie star who won an Oscar for Chicago. With its complex score and no conventional showstoppers, it requires the skills of a seasoned stage actor. And while Catherine Zeta-Jones can act and sing, she can't do both at once in this production – at least not in one take.
The show is a musical interpretation of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, a tangle of love affairs and mistaken intentions set in Sweden at the turn of the last century. It is also a study of self-consciousness, which sadly for its star is not the same thing as being self-conscious.
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First Look: Catherine Zeta-Jones in A Little Night Music
2 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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Chicago Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is making her Broadway debut as 40-ish actress Desiree Armfeldt in the highly anticipated revival of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim's 1973 classic A Little Night Music, which is set to open Dec.13. People.com has a first look at the star onstage. Zeta-Jones, 40, stars opposite five-time Tony-award-winner Angela Lansbury, who plays her worldly wise mother in the musical. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film romance Smiles of a Summer Night, the sophisticated show looks at the highs and lows of life and love and contains the hit song - delivered by Desiree - "Send in the Clowns.
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Redgrave And Richardson Heading To Broadway?
20 February 2009 11:25 AM, PST
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British acting mother and daughter duo Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson have been touted to star in a Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, following the success of their one-off show last month.
The stars paired up for a one-night fundraising performance on 12 January, with the hope that the stint would pave the way for a bigger New York production.
And according to the New York Post, Sondheim is eager to have Redgrave and Richardson share the stage again for the first full revival of the Broadway show, which is scheduled to launch next year.
The production, based on Ingmar Bergman movie Smiles of a Summer Night, will first open in London's West End in April.
Redgrave and Richardson are not thought to be a part of the show planned for the British capital.
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