[NEohioPAL] Fairmount Center for the Arts' Tribute to Sondheim Continues with A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC!

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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 Music is 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's film, 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.

 		 	   		  
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