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A Little Night Music

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Based on the Ingmar Bergman film
Smiles of a Summer Night
First Performance at the Shubert Theatre New York, February 25, 1973
The Articles
Synopsis
Notes
 Stephen Sondheim
Hugh Wheeler		 Composition and Productions
Operetta
Send in the Clowns
Bergman and Smiles of a Summer Night
The Cast
(In order of appearance)
Mr. Lindquist, Mrs. Nordstom, Mrs. Anderssen,Mr. Erlanson, Mrs. Segstrom*
Fredrika, a young girl
Madame Armfeldt, her grandmother
Frid, the butler
Anne Egerman, the young second wife of Fredrik Egerman
Henrik Egerman, Fredrik's son and Anne's stepson
Fredrik Egerman, a lawyer
Petra, the Egerman maid
Desirée Armfeldt, an actress and Madame Armfeldt's daughter
Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, a dragoon
Countess Charlotte Malcolm, his wife
Malla, Desirée's maid
Bertrand, Madame Armfeldt's page
Osa, Madame Armfeldt's maid

* Members of The Quintet

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Revised December 2009
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