[NEohioPAL] FPAC's professional wing opens A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC in 2.5 weeks! Tickets Available ONLINE

[Fred Sternfeld]

*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 <http://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,
*DesiréeArmfeldt
*, 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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