| July 9, 2009, at the playbill | 3 4 time [ ] Virtually all of the music in the show is written in meter |
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| as Desiree Armfeldt, George Lee Andrews as Fredrik Egerman and as Madame Armfeldt headed the cast |
The elderly woman reflects poignantly on her own checkered past, and wonders what happened to her refined "Liaisons".
9| Lansbury, who has hitherto been perfectly entertaining, playing Madame Armfeldt with the overripe aristocratic condescension of a Lady Bracknell | Evanston, Illinois produced the work in August 1983 |
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| " The production is "sparing on furniture and heavy on shadows", with "a scaled-down orchestra at lugubriously slowed-down tempos | West End premiere [ ] The musical premiered in the at the on April 15, 1975, and starred Jean Simmons, , David Kernan, , and , with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt |
Europe [ ] played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging in 1975 as well as in the original Swedish staging in in 1978 here with as Fredrik Egerman.
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