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Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Extend Run in A Little Night Music Through Closing Performance on January 9

Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters
in A Little Night Music
(© Joan Marcus)
Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters
in A Little Night Music
(© Joan Marcus)

Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch will continue to perform the roles of Desiree Armfeldt and Madame Armfeldt, respectively, in Broadway’s A Little Night Music, at the Walter Kerr Theatre, through its final performance, which will take place on January 9, 2011. Trevor Nunn has directed the production, which as of the final show, will have played 20 previews and 425 regular performances.

Based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer Night, A Little Night Musicis 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. It features a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler.

The current cast also features 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.

The creative team 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).

For TheaterMania’s review of Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch in A Little Night Music, click here.

For more information on the show, click here.