RESOURCE GUIDE FOR 'A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'

The Play

Banfield, Stephen O.  Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1994).
Sondheim, Stephen.  Four By Sondheim (A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Applause, 2000).
------- and Hugh Wheeler.  A Little Night Music (Libretto). Intro Jonathan Tunick (Applause, 2000).

A Little Night Music – The Guide to Musical Theatre - includes Act-by-Act Synopsis, Characters, Scenes & Settings, Musical Numbers, Orchestration Details, Discography

A Little Night Music – Sondheim Notes by Larry A. Brown

The Quotable Stephen Sondheim Page - includes Synopsis, Song-Cast List, Shows

Performance Study Guide from TheatreWorks for Schools - includes The Musical Comes of Age, Plot, Stephen Sondheim: American Musical Genius, Vocabulary List, About the Play, From Movie to Play, Ingmar Bergman, Genesis of Art Deco, A Modern Day Greek Chorus, The Musical Structure, Discussion Questions

Detailed Synopsis from Theatre History.com

The Production

Read the SCR program - includes cast bios and photos, “In His Own Words (and Music): An Interview with Stephen Sondheim,” “Do I Hear A . . .?” “Sunlit Days and Gleaming Nights”

Newsletter Articles - “A Night for Romance,” “A Favorite Face, and What a Voice!” and “Isn’t It Rich?”

Stephen Sondheim

Brustein, Robert.  The Theater of Revolt (Little, Brown, 1962).
Citron, Stephen.  Sondheim and Lloyd-Weber: The New Musical (Oxford UP, 2001).
Gordon, Joanne Lesley.  Art Isn’t Easy: The Achievement of Stephen Sondheim (Southern Illinois UP, 1990).
-------.  Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook (Routledge, 1997).
Gottfried, Martin.  Sondheim (Harry N. Abrams, 1993).
Horowitz, Mark David. Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions (Scarecrow, 2003).
Secrest, Meryle.  Stephen Sondheim: A Life (Alfred Knopf, 1998).
Swayne, Steve.  How Sondheim Found His Sound (U. of Michigan Press, 2005).
Zadan, Craig. Sondheim and Co. 2nd edition (Harper & Row, 1986).

Bibliography of Magazine and Newspaper Articles on Stephen Sondheim from The Questia Online Library

Biography of Stephen Sondheim - includes Shows Authored, Early Life, Career, Major and Minor Works, Awards and Recognitions, Film and TV

Celebrating Sondheim

Looking Back on Making History: The Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration in Retrospect

Stars Over Broadway - includes Biography, Key Shows, Video Interview, Hear a Song

Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide - includes The Shows, The Songs, The Recordings, A Chronology, Sondheim People, Other Stage Work, Film Work, Unproduced Projects, Television & Radio, Special Events, Collections, Compilations, Songbooks, Bibliography, Links

Work of Stephen Sondheim: ArtsEdge 9-12 Teaching Unit

Musical Theatre

Block, Geoffrey.  Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Showboat to Sondheim (Oxford UP, 1997).
Bryer, Jackson R.  The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators (Rutgers UP, 2005).
Hirsch, Foster.  Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre (Hal Leonard, 2005).
Jones, John Bush.  Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre (UPNE, 2000).
Laube, Abe.  Broadway’s Greatest Musicals (Funk & Wagnalls, 1977).
Prince, Hal.  Contradiction: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theater (Dodd Mead, 1974).

Curriculum Units on American Musical Theater from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Infography about American Musical Theater

Ingmar Bergman

Bergman, Ingmar.  Bergman on Bergman  (Simon and Schuster, 1973).
-------.  Four Screenplays (Simon and Schuster, 1960).
-------.  Smiles of a Summer Night (Criterion Collection, 2004). DVD, black & white, Swedish with English subtitles.
Donner, Jorn.  The Personal Vision of Ingmar Bergman (Indiana UP, 1964).
Gervais, Marc.  Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet (McGill-Queen’s Press, 1999).
            “Smiles is the perfect fusion of film and theatre; a triumphant exercise in the comedy of manners genre.  Also, it truly represents a culmination point, the crowning of the “rose period.”  It is as if Bergman not only gathered together into one film the various experiences of love that had heretofore nourished his films but also categorized them in a pattern at once intellectually appropriated and fundamentally mystical.  Even more significantly, the Bergman game is now obvious: under the guise of comedy, the quest for life’s meaningfulness is now bidding for center stage, the position it will occupy during the next creative phase.”
Oliver, Myrna.  “Cinema’s Brooding Auteur of the Psyche” Los Angeles Times 31 July 2007, A1+
Rainer, Peter.  “The Soul Man,” Los Angeles Times 31 July 2007, E1+
Rothstein, Mervyn.  “Ingmar Bergman, Sweden’s Master of the Cinema, Is Dead at 89.” New York Times, 31 July 2007, A1+.

Remembering Bergman by Andrew O’Hehir - “Ingmar Bergman changed the face of filmmaking—and may have been the 20th-century’s greatest artist.”

Bergman Biography and Filmography