[NEohioPAL] A Little Night Music Plays in Mayfield Village!

[lydia hall]

Come Spend “A
Weekend in the Country”-- 

FPAC’s A Little Night Music Opens October 27!

 

Imagine an invitation arrives in the mail. A wealthy woman is throwing
a party for some friends at a country estate for the weekend. Topping the guest
list are Fredrik Egerman, an elder statesman in a very real sense of the word; his
teenaged and, yes, still virginal, bride, Anne; his on-again, off-again lover Desirée
—a glamorous actress—who is now involved with another woman’s husband; and his religiously
zealous son Henrik who is so morose that he’s on the verge of suicide.  What could possibly go wrong? Get your ring-side
seat for all of the amorous adversity as Fairmount
Performing Arts Conservatory’s Professional Wing presents one of Stephen Sondheim’s best-loved musicals,
A
Little Night Music. The hi-jinks ensue Thursdays through Saturdays at
7:30 PM and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 PM, October
27-November 13 at the Mayfield Village Civic Center, Located
at the corner of Wilson Mills and SOM Center Roads (6622 Wilson Mills Road in
Mayfield Village, OH). Tickets are available on-line at FAIRMOUNTCENTER.TIX.COM
or by calling 440-338-3171. Tickets
range from $14 - $25. Discounts are available for groups and for Mayfield
Village residents. All tickets for the
Thursday, October 27 preview are only $15!


It’s summer. It’s Sweden. The end of
the nineteenth century is fast approaching, but the never-quite-setting sun
hangs in the sky, just over the horizon…all night long. While the temperature
outside is balmy, Fredrik Egerman’s marriage is a bit like winter in Stockholm:
dark, cold and with no relief in sight. He married his lovely, young wife Anne
nearly a year ago, and he’s yet to experience her in the Biblical sense.

Fredrik, it seems, is searching…for
love, for lost youth, for happiness and connection. He’s a hopeless romantic
who very much believes in the tradition of marriage and wants desperately to be
a good husband. But he’s married to a woman a fraction of his age, and she
can’t seem to understand that he is not interested in a monastic life. Fredrik
is fighting to hold tight to his beliefs and his marriage but he is running
from death as fast as he can, right into the arms of his former flame, Desirée Armfeldt. In Desirée,
Fredrik finds comfort, familiarity, and a level of human understanding that
only a woman who’s lived can understand. Fredrik married Anne hoping for a new
beginning, an unwritten page, having lost his wife and having to come face to
face with mortality. Fredrik now finds himself internally embattled: he’s
frustrated, he’s aging, he’s married to a teenager who doesn’t find him
desirable, his marriage isn’t working and he doesn’t know how to fix it, he
can’t stop time and, although he wants to do the “right” thing, he’s in love
with Desirée. And there’s the problem of Desirée’s jealous lover who enjoys a
good knife fight and carries firearms....Find out if what happens in the
country stays in the country when A Little Night Music begins to play.


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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