A Little Night Music

Ipswich Musical Theatre Company is proud to announce that its new production of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, will open at The Old Courthouse on 2 February 2025, for a strictly limited season. “The summer night smiles three times. First for the young who know nothing, then for the fools who know too little and third for the old who know too much.” Sondheim's A Little Night Music is a romantic farce about the lives of several upper middle-class couples in early twentieth-century Sweden and their unexpected evening of romantic musical chairs, filled with desire, passion and regret. Set against the perpetual twilight mid-summer night, there is more than a passing nod to many of the thematic cues of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the jaded actress Desiree Armfeldt is negotiates the follies of her ill advised love triangle with lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm...and their wives. Sondheim’s eighth Broadway musical, A Little Night Music won a record-setting fourth consecutive Tony Award in 1973 for Best Score and Best Musical, and certainly contains some of the composers most lavish music, almost exclusively with a hint of Waltz. Featuring classic songs like “A Weekend in the Country” “The Miller’s Son” "You Must Meet My wife" and the iconic standard “Send in the Clowns”.