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 & Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Directed by Kelly Ward Bing Theatre | March 31–April 10, 2016 CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) MUSICAL NUMBERS

Fredrika Armfeldt Madame Armfeldt ACT 1 Sarah Rosenthal Camille Langston Night Waltz PRESENTS Mr. Lindquist Frid Company Austin Dalgleish Kyle McLaughlin Now Mrs. Nordstrom Henrik Egerman Fredrik Liz Buzbee Dorian Tayler Later A Little Night Music Mrs. Anderssen Anne Egerman Henrik Brooke Lewis Maxine Phoenix Soon MUSIC AND LYRICS BY BOOK BY Mr. Erlanson Fredrik Egerman Anne, Henrik, Fredrik Chas Conacher Taubert Nadalini The Glamorous Life Stephen Sondheim Hugh Wheeler Mrs. Segstrom Petra Fredrika, Desiree, Madame Armfeldt, Julianna Keller Molly Chiffer Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Segstrom, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Mrs. Hult Desiree Armfeldt Mrs. Anderssen, Mr. Lindquist, Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Carson Klasner Annika Ellwanger-Chavez Mr. Erlanson, Mr. Solberg, Mrs. Hult Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Mr. Solberg Malla Remember? Robert Lee Terry Ashley Busenlener Mr. Lindquist, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Segstrom, Mr. Erlanson, Osa Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm Mrs. Anderssen, Mr. Solberg, Mrs. Hult WITH (in alphabetical order) Shannon Sheridan Connor McCreary Bertrand, Theatre Page Countess Charlotte Malcolm You Must Meet My Wife Ashley Busenlener Liz Buzbee Molly Chiffer Desiree, Fredrik John “Jack” Tavcar Katie Pimentel Chas Conacher Austin Dalgleish Annika Ellwanger-Chavez Liaisons Julianna Keller Carson Klasner Camille Langston Madame Armfeldt TIME: Turn of the last century In Praise of Women Brooke Lewis Connor McCreary Kyle McLaughlin PLACE: Sweden Carl-Magnus Taubert Nadalini Maxine Phoenix Katie Pimentel Every Day A Little Death MUSICIANS Charlotte, Anne Sarah Rosenthal Shannon Sheridan John “Jack” Tavcar Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute Julie Burkert | Clarinet, Bass A Weekend in the Country Dorian Tayler Robert Lee Terry Clarinet Darryl Tanikawa | Flute, Clarinet Dave Hill | Company Oboe, English Horn Kimaree Gilad | Bassoon Christin Webb | Horn 1 Melissa Hendrickson | Horn 2 ACT 2 SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Chris Wilson | Horn 3 Joy Armstrong | Trumpet 1 The Sun Won’t Set Lea Branyan Marly Hall Justus Bradshaw Bob Allen | Trumpet 2 Bill Barrett | Trombone June Mrs. Anderssen, Mrs. Segstrom, Satton | Violin 1 (Concertmaster) Sharon Cooper Mrs. Nordstrom, Mr. Lindquist, Mr. Erlanson, Mr. Solberg, Mrs. Hult SOUND DESIGN MUSICAL DIRECTION BY STAGE MANAGER | Violin 1 Sally Berman | Violin 2 Lydia Favorito | It Would Have Been Wonderful Danielle Kisner Parmer Fuller Alex Rehberger Violin 3 Manoela Wunder | Viola 1 Karen Goulding Long | Viola 2 Matt Witmer | Cello 1 Trina Carey- Fredrik, Carl-Magnus & Stephen Jensen Hodgson | Cello 2 Oliver Walton | Double String Perpetual Anticipation Bass Lisa Gass | Piano Celeste Ben van Diepen | Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Segstrom, Mrs. Anderssen DIRECTED BY Percussion Raymond Frisby | Harp Amy Wilkins Kelly Ward Send in the Clowns UNDERSTUDIES Desiree Brooke Lewis for Countess Charlotte Malcolm The Miller’s Son Julianna Keller for Anne Egerman, Petra Petra Carson Klasner for Mrs. Anderssen, Mrs. Segstrom Bing Theatre | March 31–April 10, 2016 Finale Robert Lee Terry for Fredrik Egerman, Count Carl- Company Magnus Malcolm A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019 • PHONE: 212-541-4684 FAX: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com There will be one 15-minute intermission. WARNING Please be advised that this production contains haze, smoking of e-cigarettes, and loud gunshots. DIRECTOR'S NOTE DIRECTOR'S BIO The Stephen Sondheim score for tonight’s paean Kelly Ward has to operetta and Ingmar Bergman is endlessly been directing and INTERIM DEAN choreographing for the Associate Professor of Theatre Practice David Bridel (Director of MFA in Acting) enchanting. One can listen to it over and over and theatre for close to 40 years. ASSOCIATE DEANS never run out of new discoveries, whether they’re He has written, story-edited, Professor Sharon Marie Carnicke and produced hundreds of delightfully deft turns of phrase, or slyly symbolic Professor Velina Hasu Houston (Distinguished Professor, Director of Dramatic Writing) musical quotes of the great Romantic composers. television episodes, and co-authored the feature ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS This piece marked the third collaboration between films Once Upon a Forest Luis Alfaro and All Dogs Go To Heaven Meiling Cheng (Director of Critical Studies) Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince. Having been 2. He has been awarded Oliver Mayer denied the rights to adapt Ring Round the Moon, the Humanitas Prize for ASSISTANT PROFESSORS writing children’s animation they turned instead to Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Carla Della Gatta and a Daytime Emmy for Night for their story. Their decision was somewhat Takeshi Kata directing. His forays into the Tom Ontiveros analogous to the romantic escapades depicted in executive ranks include four Sibyl Wickersheimer this play, and their selection of Hugh Wheeler to years as V.P. of Animation at write the book was equally serendipitous. Wheeler’s Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and PROFESSORS OF THEATRE PRACTICE adaptation — a masterful variation on Bergman’s two years as V.P. Creative Andrei Belgrader Affairs at MCA/Universal Natsuko Ohama ebullient film — is a perfect complement to Family Entertainment. As Andrew J. Robinson Sondheim’s unparalleled virtuosity with a lyric. an actor, Ward co-starred ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS OF THEATRE PRACTICE in the 1978 film version I met and worked with Hugh Wheeler in 1975, in Philip G. Allen of Grease, as “Putzie,” one Paul Backer (Director of Undergraduate Voice and Movement) between my freshman and sophomore years as of the five T-Birds. Other Brent Blair (Director of MA in Applied Theatre Arts) a Drama student here at USC. Though I’d been film credits of note include Elsbeth M. Collins (Director of Production) aware of A Little Night Music since shortly after its co-starring roles in Samuel Anita Dashiell-Sparks Fuller’s The Big Red One and inception, being a mere 18 years of age I lacked the Christina Haatainen-Jones (Director of Design) Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit. Ward Joseph Hacker maturity to fully appreciate all that this play is. Hugh returns to the USC School of Duncan Mahoney (Technical Director) passed in 1987. There are so many things I should Dramatic Arts where he last Mary-Joan Negro (Director of BA Acting) like to have asked him. directed The Pajama Game. Jack Rowe (Artistic Director, Director of BFA Acting) He currently writes, and Stephanie Shroyer (Associate Artistic Director) directs voiceover on various Eric Trules SPECIAL THANKS animated productions, including The Lion Guard, ASSISTANT PROFESSORS OF THEATRE PRACTICE Jack Rowe, Norman Cooley, Narcissa Vanderlip Fuller, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Paula Cizmar Kirby Ward, Beverly Ward, John Edw. Blankenchip The 7D, and Mickey and the John DeMita (posthumously), Monique Williams (Transportation), Roadster Racers, for Disney Kathleen Dunn-Muzingo G. Austin Allen Television Animation. Laura Flanagan Melinda C. Finberg Randle Mell Louise Peacock PRODUCTION STAFF David Warshofsky Choreography Kelly Ward | Asst. Director Kevin Paley | Rehearsal Pianist Benjamin van Diepen | Orchestra Contractor Darryl Tanikawa | Dance Captain John “Jack” Tavcar | Scenic Artist ADJUNCT/PART-TIME FACULTY OF THEATRE PRACTICE Tony Abatemarco, Rob Adler, Craig Anton, Robert Bailey, Michael Bateman, Joe Bays, Stephanie Nimick | Asst. Stage Managers Simon Chau, Taylor Cullen | Technical Director Haley Andrew Borba, Jennifer Brienen, Tom Buderwitz, Anne Burk, Frank Catalano, Anatasia Miller | Asst. Technical Director Sandra Huang | Asst. Scenic Designer Grace Wang | Scenic Design Coon, Gregg T. Daniel, Debra DeLiso, Gary Domasin, Allison Dunbar, Frank Dwyer, Dan PA Zach Blumner | Fiber Optics Technician G. Austin Allen | Asst. Costume Designer Megan Fishbach, Jeff Flowers, Parmer Fuller, Terry Gordon, Linzi Juliano, Michael Keenan, Edgar Guthrie-Wedemeyer | Asst. 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