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Photo by Allen Weeks by Photo A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY HUGH WHEELER ORCHESTRATIONS BY JONATHAN TUNICK SUGGESTED BY A FILM BY INGMAR BERGMAN ORIGINALLY PRODUCED AND DIRECTED ON BROADWAY BY HAROLD PRINCE DIRECTED BY PETER ROTHSTEIN MUSIC DIRECTION BY JASON HANSEN CHOREOGRAPHY BY HEIDI SPESARD-NOBLE JAN 23 - MAR 3, 2019 • RITZ THEATER Theater Latté Da presents A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Directed by Peter Rothstein** Music Direction by Jason Hansen† Choreography by Heidi Spesard-Noble FEATURING Mark Benninghofen*, Grace Chermak, Bradley Greenwald*, Elizabeth Hawkinson, Susan Hofflander*, Riley McNutt, Rodolfo Nieto, Britta Ollmann*, Sally Wingert*, and Mabel Weismann. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors ** Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union †Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. Opening Night: Saturday, January 26 at 7:30 pm ASL Interpreted and Audio Described Performance: Thursday, February 7 at 7:30 pm Post-show Conversations: Thursday evenings Jan 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, and 28 Sunday afternoons Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3 Post-show Happy Hour with the cast: Friday February 8 and 22 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy to the performers and other patrons, please check to see that all cell phones, pagers, watches, and other noise-making devices are turned off. Theater Latté Da is grateful for the generosity of our A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Production Sponsors Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier. Thank you to our media sponsor 2 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince THE CAST THE PRODUCTION TEAM Fredrik Egerman ........................................................... Mark Benninghofen* Director ..........................................................................Peter Rothstein** † Anne Egerman ................................................................................ Grace Chermak Music Director ................................................................. Jason Hansen Choreographer .............................................. Frid ............................................................................................ Bradley Greenwald* Heidi Spesard-Noble Assistant Director....................................................................... Sara Ochs Countess Charlotte Malcolm ............................ Elizabeth Hawkinson Dramaturg ............................................................................... Elissa Adams Madame Leonora Armfeldt ......................................... Susan Hofflander* Scenic Designer .......................................................................... Joel Sass Henrik Egerman ................................................................................ Riley McNutt Costume Designer ........................................................... Rich Hamson Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm .................................................. Rodolfo Nieto Lighting Designer ..................................................... Marcus Dilliard^ Petra ....................................................................................................... Britta Ollmann* Asst. Lighting Designer ..................... Smaida Mara Rizzotto Fredrika Armfeldt ................................................................... Mabel Weismann Sound Designer ...................................................... C Andrew Mayer^ Desirée Armfeldt .............................................................................. Sally Wingert* Stage Manager ................................................................. Tiffany K. Orr* Assistant Stage Manager .................... Amanda K. Bowman* Technical Director ................................................ Bethany Reinfeld THE MUSICIANS Properties Master ................................................... Abbee Warmboe † Music Director/Piano ................................................................. Jason Hansen Hair & Wig Designer ................................................................ Paul Bigot † Woodwinds ................................................................................. Mark Henderson Asst. Costume Designer ......................... Dakota Blankenship † Wardrobe ..................................................................................... Violin .................................................................................................... Carolyn Boulay Tiffany Clem † Scenic Charge ...................................................... Angelique Powers Cello ............................................................................................................. Joe Englund † Master Electrician ............................... Micayla Thebault-Spieker Double Bass ................................................................................................ Greg Angel Audio Engineer ........................................................... Nicholas Tranby Stage Management Intern ....................................... Lydia Wagner Followspot Op. .......................... Katie McLean, Wesley Cone Sub Followspot Op. ......................................................................... Ben Eng SETTING Carpenters ...................................Eric Charlton, Whitley Cobb, Time: Turn of the Century Ty Waters Place: Sweden Electricians ..............Jeremy Ellarby, Claudia Errickson, Nick Fetting, Garvin Jellison, Grant E. Merges, Karin Olson, Joe Vaske Drapers ............................................... Susan Fick, Barb Portinga, *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors Milly Oudoff, Rebecca Karlsted **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Stitchers .........................................Jen Haggerman, Lillian Lee, a national theatrical labor union † Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians Yelena Rowen, Dakota Blankenship ^Member of the United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers Scenic Painters ....................... Josie Everett, Jeni Tolifson, and scenic painters for the American theater Stefanie Darby THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Theater Latté Da’s first production was a musical revue Silly, silly people, Denise Prosek and I put together called Lost in Boston. Patient and polite It was an evening of songs all cut from Broadway shows. Crying in their teacups Many of the songs landed on the cutting-room floors of Shying from the night Boston theaters and rehearsal studios, as Boston was the When now it smiles, it smiles for lovers chief city at the time for out-of-town tryouts. (I’ve always When next it smiles, it smiles for fools loved that our first foray shed light on discarded and The last it smiles, it smiles for them: forgotten gems.) The others, the rememberers, the truly silly people... Sondheim wrote a song for A Little Night Music called “Silly Ironically, or perhaps not, I believe these cut lyrics best People” for the character of Frid, Madame Armfeldt’s butler, capture the soul of the show, which is at once silly and to sing. It was cut in Boston. Regarding “Silly People,” tragic, romantic and cynical, fanciful and profound. Sondheim writes, “Wrong songs take just as much time to write as right songs, and are frequently good ones, but Sondheim’s frequent collaborator Hal Prince directed they are often impossible to spot as wrong until you see the premiere in Boston. Hal once described the show as them in performance. And what a disappointment they are, “whipped cream with knives.” According to Sondheim, “Hal especially when they’re good.” was more interested in the whipped cream and I was more interested in the knives.” The lyric reads: I have wanted to stage A Little Night Music for years; as a Lie here with me on the grass director I love to both whip the cream and to sharpen the Let the wind be our words knives. I believe it is one of the most dynamic works written As the night smiles down for the musical theater. I hope you love it as much as I do. Don’t they know, don’t they? I’m glad you’re here. No, they don’t, do they? Silly people Voices glide by, let them pass Let them float in their words ‘Til they slowly drown Don’t they know, don’t they, what they want? Peter Rothstein Founding Artistic Director MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE ACT TWO Overture Night Waltz Night Waltz It Would Have Been Wonderful Now Perpetual Anticipation Later Send In the Clowns Soon The Miller’s Son Glamorous Life A Weekend in the Country (Reprise) Remember Send in the Clowns (Reprise) You Must Meet My Wife Last Waltz Liaisons In Praise of Women Every Day a Little Death A Weekend in the Country 4 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Costume Renderings by Rich Hamson ABOUT THEATER LATTÉ DA THE CAST OF ONCE Founded