A Little Night Music

…that includes many pastiche songs; A Little Night Music (1973; film 1977), based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955); and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979; film 2007), a macabre tale set in Victorian-era London. All were either produced or directed by Harold…

intellectual sophistication, including Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). Lloyd Webber was the most commercially successful purveyor of musical theatre during the last decades of the 20th century, notably with Evita (1978), Cats

…revivals of Mame (1983), Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (2009), and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012). In 2009 she earned a fifth Tony Award, for her performance as an eccentric medium in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. Five years later she reprised the role in the West End production of…

…of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. For her performance as the Swedish actress Desirée, she won a Tony Award in 2010. The following year Zeta-Jones was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).