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''Marry Me a Little'' is a musical with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman René. The revue sets songs cut from Sondheim's better-known musicals, as well as songs from his then-unproduced musical ''Saturday Night'' to a dialogue-free plot about the relationship between two lonely New York single people, who are in emotional conflict during an evening in their separate one-room apartments. Despite knowing of the other's existence, they never get up the courage to talk to each other, though they imagine what such an encounter might be like.〔Sommer, Elyse.(''Marry Me a Little'' review ) curtainup.com, October 19, 1997〕 ==History== The musical originally was staged by the off-off-Broadway Production Company. It opened on October 29, 1980 and closed December 28, 1980. It re-opened March 12, 1981 at the off-Broadway Actor's Playhouse, where it ran for 96 performances. Directed by Rene and choreographed by Don Johanson, it starred Craig Lucas and Suzanne Henry. The revue has been performed in US regional theaters such as GroundWorks Theatre, Nashville, Tennessee in March 2009 〔(Listing for ''Marry Me a Little'' ) groundworkstheatre.blogspot.com, retrieved December 10, 2009〕 and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in May 2009.〔Hetrick, Adam.("Marry Me a Little Opens at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park May 14" ) playbill.com, May 14, 2009〕 In late 1998 actor Steve Gideon proposed a revival of the work with the casting of a male same-sex couple to play the leads. He approached Stephen Sondheim with the idea and was given permission. The new version of the work debuted at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood, CA in 1999. A version of the main title with Harry Nilsson singing can be found on bootlegs. In 2008, ''Marry Me a Little'' was performed in South Africa in a production starring David Fick opposite Talia Egelhof and then Nathan Fredericks in two successive runs of the show at the Intimate Theatre in Cape Town from 28 June - 5 July. The production was directed by Jacqui Kowen, with musical direction by Victor Tichart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Path: /Published/DieBurgerWes/NJoernaal/2008/06/20/NJ/Texts/WESteater20.xml 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marry Me a Little (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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