Tracks: 1. Overture: Night Waltz
2. Now / Later / Soon
3. The Glamorous Life
4. Remember?
5. You Must Meet My Wife
6. Liaisons
7. In Praise of Women
8. Every Day a Little Death
9. A Weekend in the Country
10.Night Waltz I (The Sun Won't Set)
11.It Would Have Been Wonderful
12.Perpetual Anticipation
13.Send in the Clowns
14.The Miller's Son
15.Finale
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:47: Amazon.com Editoral Review: Perhaps best known for the hit "Send In the Clowns," Stephen Sondheim's glamorous 3/4 waltz-time musical recalls enchanted evenings, white kidskin elbow gloves, and romance of the green-eyed bittersweet and bed-hopping sort. The ruse is that these folks lead "ordinary lives": the father is widowed, remarries, and briefly rekindles a sack-side former flame; the son flirts with the maid; the child bride is cuckolded yet loves and is loved by the son; and the maid has a romp with the butler. Adapted from a mid-'50s Ingmar Bergman film, the play debuted in America in the early '70s and is set in Sweden's turn-of-the-century well-to-do society. Now remastered and heard at the dawn of the millennium, Night Music is a dated yet charmingly affected period piece, abundant in its sweeping theatricality. As an unhappily chaste newlywed, Len Cariou, Broadway's glistening middle-aged dandy, is smashing as Fredrick. Glynis Johns (who always sounds congested and quite cosmopolitan) steals focus as the delightful actress Desiree. Night Music is a foolishly fanciful, twinkly score swathed in plucky harp, sweeping strings, and coolly elegant conversational tunes. --Paige La Grone
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