About This Event
Selina Cartmell directs Sondheim’s breathtaking classic, a life-affirming fairy-tale for adults.
‘I frequently laugh myself to sleep contemplating my own future.’
In Sondheim’s enchanting musical, set in turn-of-the-century Sweden, mismatched couples waltz through a series of self-delusions in search of a happy ending.
This lighter-than-air confection of romantic misfires and magical songs features Sondheim’s bittersweet masterpiece, ‘Send in the Clowns’. Old, young and middle-aged are equally determined and witty in this Tony award winning musical comedy.
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by
Hugh Wheeler
Suggested by a film by
Ingmar Bergman
Originally produced and directed on Broadway by
Harold Prince
Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International