A Little Night Music

NEW PRODUCTION

Featuring ‘Send in the Clowns’ one of the best-loved songs of all time.

Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair? The two throwaway questions leave so much unsaid, and so much understood.

‘Send in the Clowns’ is the hit song from A Little Night Music, an exquisite meditation on love, life and the passage of time from the inspired composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Three generations gather for a midsummer weekend in Sweden, beneath a sun which neverquite sets. As husbands, wives, sons and lovers waltz through the golden night, they make life-changing discoveries.

Nancye Hayes and Robert Grubb are reunited for a new production of this delicious mixture of words and music, featuring Sigrid Thornton in her Opera Australia debut.

Performed in English.
Running time: approximately two hours and forty-minutes including one twenty minute interval.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman

Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince by arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd Exclusive agent for Music Theatre International (NY)

• 12-16; 19- 23; 26-30 May 2009 @ 7.30pm
  
• 16, 20, 23, 27 & 30 May  @ 1pm
  
• 24 May @ 3pm