A Little Night Music

Sun Feb 02 2025 at 02:00 pm to Sat Feb 15 2025 at 10:30 pm UTC+10:00

The Old Courthouse | Ipswich

Ipswich Musical Theatre Company
Publisher/HostIpswich Musical Theatre Company
A Little Night Music
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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” A Little Night Music offers a rich musical tapestry that pays homage Johann Strauss II Ravel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.


Sondheim being a master of puzzles has made A Little Night Music a deeply layered and labyrinth work which even 51 years after its premier still holds so many untapped resources.

The productions Director Robert Shearer contacted Sondheim prior to the composers passing in 2020 with a number of the new readings and interpretations of the text.

Sondheim was delighted to hear about this "New Production" with a renewed and pinpointed focus on the motivations; emotionally societally romantically and sexually of the intricate couplings within the play and new character development for a number a secondary characters.


 🎟 TICKETS

ADULT- $45

 

📆 PERFORMANCES

SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY – 2:00PM

SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY – 7:30PM

SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY – 2:00PM

FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY - 7:30PM

SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY - 7:30PM


📍LOCATION

The Old Courthouse

Crn of Roderick and Ginn St Ipswich QLD 4305


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Old Courthouse, Corner Roderick and Ginn St, Ipswich, Australia

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