Due to popular demand, Tony, Grammy & Golden Globe Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony & Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch have extended their stay in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Tony Award-winner Trevor Nunn. Peters & Stritch were originally only scheduled to perform through Sunday, November 7, 2010 and will now stay with the production through its final performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street) on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM after 20 previews and 425 regular performances.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC stars
Bernadette Peters as Desirée Armfeldt,
Elaine Stritch as Madame Armfeldt,
Stephen R. Buntrock as Fredrik Egerman,
Bradley Dean as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm,
Erin Davie as Countess Charlotte Malcolm,
Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra,
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Henrik Egerman and
Ramona Mallory as
Anne Egerman. The cast also includes
Ron Bohmer,
Ben Davis, Jessica Grové,
Gina Lamparella,
Katherine McNamara,
Jayne Paterson,
Kevin David Thomas,
Keaton Whittaker,
Karen Murphy,
Erin Stewart,
Kevin Vortmann.
Based on
Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, long simmering passions and a taste of love's endless possibilities. Hailed as witty and wildly romantic, the story centers on the elegant actress Desirée Armfeldt and the spider's web of sensuality, intrigue and desire that surrounds her.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - featuring a score by
Stephen Sondheim and a book by
Hugh Wheeler - originally opened in 1973 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre and ran for 601 performances. Produced and directed by
Harold Prince, the production garnered six Tony Awards® including Best Musical and Best Original Score. The Sondheim score features one of the composer's best-known songs, "Send in the Clowns," as well as "Every Day a Little Death," "The Miller's Son" and "A Weekend in the Country."
Trevor Nunn's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC debuted to critical acclaim at London's
Menier Chocolate Factory in November 2008 and subsequently transferred to the West End where it played a successful limited engagement through July 25, 2009 at the Garrick Theatre. The first Broadway revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC began performances on November 24, 2009 and officially opened on December 13, 2009 at the
Walter Kerr Theatre starring
Catherine Zeta-Jones and
Angela Lansbury, who played their final performance on Sunday, June 20, 2010.
Bernadette Peters and
Elaine Stritch began performances on Tuesday, July 13, 2010.
The creative team for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC includes
Lynne Page (Choreography),
Caroline Humphris (Musical Supervision),
David Farley (Set & Costume Design),
Hartley T A Kemp (Lighting Design),
Dan Moses Schreier and
Gareth Owen (Sound Design),
Paul Huntley (Wig Design),
Jason Carr (Orchestrations) and
Rob Bowman (Musical Direction).
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is produced on Broadway by
Tom Viertel,
Steven Baruch,
Marc Routh,
Richard Frankel, The
Menier Chocolate Factory,
Roger Berlind,
David Babani,
Sonia Friedman Productions,
Andrew Fell,
Daryl Roth/Jane Bergère,
Harvey Weinstein/Raise the Roof 3, Beverly Bartner/
Dancap Productions, Inc.,
Nica Burns/
Max Weitzenhoffer,
Eric Falkenstein/
Anna Czekaj,
Jerry Frankel/
Ronald Frankel,
James D. Stern/
Douglas L. Meyer.
