Fairmount Center for the Arts

continues its tribute to Stephen Sondheim with
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC!

MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OH — Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory’s Professional Wing presents the Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music, onstage at the Mayfield Village Civic Center October 27 – November 13, 2011. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7:30 PM and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM. Located at the corner of Wilson Mills and SOM Center Roads, the Mayfield Village Civic Center (6622 Wilson Mills Road in Mayfield Village, OH), is the home of Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)’s theatrical productions. Order tickets on-line at FAIRMOUNTCENTER.TIX.COM or call 440-338-3171. Tickets range from $14 – $25. Group Rates are available. Discounts are available for Mayfield Village residents. All tickets for the Thursday, October 27 preview are only $15!

A Little Night Musicis the second in a two-part “Tribute to Stephen Sondheim” presented by FPAC’s Professional Wing.  Last April’s Company garnered rave reviews, including this accolade from Donald Rosenberg of The Plain Dealer, who proclaimed that FPAC’s Company “bests the New York Philharmonic’s recent star-studded production.”

Based on Ingmar Bergman’sfilm, Smiles Of A Summer Night , A Little Night Music is a witty and urbane musical set in waltz time. One of Broadway’s masterpieces, the romantic and achingly beautiful, A Little Night Music deals with the universal subject of love, in all its wondrous, humorous and ironic permutations. 

Cleveland legend Dorothy Silver will play the wise and observant Madame Armfeldt.  Silver is beloved in greater Cleveland for her outstanding work spanning more than five decades, including her recent tour de force performance in Wings at Beck Center. Her appearance in a musical is a rare and exciting event. A Little Night Music marks a return for Tracee Patterson, who played the acerbic Joanne in FPAC’s Company last spring. Patterson will plumb the depths of an equally complex character, Desirée Armfeldt, the glamorous actress who is loved by one man, while the man she loves seems just out of her grasp.  Desirée Armfeldt sings arguably the most well-known and oft-performed of Sondheim songs—one which he claims to have composed in just ten minutes—the moving “Send In The Clowns.”  Tracee Patterson is acclaimed for a wide range of work locally from The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? at Dobama to Luisa in Nine at Cain Park. Award-winning actor, director and educator Matthew Wright plays the sharp-witted lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, who is Desirée’s former flame—and possibly the love of her life. Matthew Wright*, has numerous credits locally, including the title role of the hit Jerry Springer: The Opera at Beck Center, and as Father in Ragtime at the JCC / Tri C East. He also has appeared at many prominent national theatres including the La Jolla Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre and Trinity Repertory Theatre.

The rest of the principals are rounded out by Anna Bradley (Penny Lou Pingleton in Beck Center’s summer smash Hairspray), Katherine DeBoer (Caroline, or Change at Karamu), James Love (Curley in Oklahoma at Porthouse), Luke Wehner (Roger in Rent at Near West), Natalie Green (Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Beck Center), Eric Fancher (Charlie Brown in You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown at TrueNorth) and Cara Corrigan (Bet in Oliver at Cassidy). Completing the company are the requisite servants: Joiel Bauschatz, Kayla Spira, Jeremy Jenkins, as well as The Liebeslieders, a quintet – William Clarence Marshall*, Claire Connelly, Bernadette Hisey, Justin Williams and Lydia Hall.

Directing this highly anticipated production of A Little Night Music is the notable Fred Sternfeld. Sternfeld, whose numerous and award-winning directing credits include Yellowman (Karamu), Baby (TrueNorth Cultural Arts Center), The Sound of Music and Fiddler on the Roof (Cain Park), Ragtime (JCC/TRI C) and Man of LaMancha (JCC), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Beck Center) and many productions with the Fairmount Center, is also the Artistic Director of FPAC and Director of the School of Theatre at the Fairmount Center for the Arts.

A Little Night Music’s creative team includes musical director David Williams, choreographer Bebe Weinberg Katz, scenic designer Trad A. Burns, lighting designer Ben Gantose, costume designer Craig Tucker and sound designer Carlton Guc. A Little Night Music is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

For more information about Fairmount Center for the Arts, visit www.fairmountcenter.org or call 440-338-3171.

Reposted from NEOHIOPAL