A Night at the Met is the third official album by Robin Williams, released August 9, 1986. It features segments recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The album won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical.

A Night at the Met
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 9, 1986 [1]
GenreStand-up comedy
Length53:13 (audio album)
65 min (TV movie) [2]
LabelColumbia, Legacy
ProducerDavid Steinberg, Brooks Arthur
Robin Williams chronology
Throbbing Python of Love
(1983)
A Night at the Met
(1986)
Pecos Bill
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

The album was released the year before Williams's critically acclaimed performance in the motion picture, Good Morning, Vietnam. He had been shifting his focus from stand-up comedy to filmmaking for several years, and A Night at the Met would be one of his last major concerts during the 1980s. The show is a mix of Williams's quick-witted humor and voice work, with rants on the topics of drugs, sex, world affairs and parenting. References to the events and people of the 1980s are heavily mentioned throughout: U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, are central to many of the jokes.

Track listing

edit
No.TitleLength
1."Opening"1:58
2."Ballet"1:31
3."Alcohol"5:27
4."Marijuana"2:21
5."Cocaine"4:11
6."Cops"2:53
7."Reagan"5:45
8."Khadafi"1:51
9."Spring"1:32
10."Men's Parts"1:37
11."Lust"3:48
12."Dr. Roof"4:33
13."Pregnancy"2:08
14."Childbirth"4:14
15."Childhood"6:03
16."...And the Future"3:16
Total length:53:13

References

edit
  1. ^ "Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met" – via www.imdb.com.
  2. ^ "Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met (1986) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
  3. ^ "A Night at the Met - Robin Williams | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
edit