A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Bernadette Peters Performs Send In The Clowns

http://www.NightMusicOnBroadway.com Tony®-, Golden Globe- and Grammy Award--winner Bernadette Peters and Tony®-, Drama Desk- and Emmy--winner Elaine Stritch star in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award®--winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Tony Award®-winner Trevor Nunn.

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[yougottagetagimmick]

She needs to play Mrs. Lovett now.

[isthisnametook]

Where is the rest

Send in the rest

[SeeSierraSing]

Why? She wasn't in it. That was Madeline Kahn as Lily Von Shtupp.

[HachiZenki]

It may not be fair to her but everytime I see Bernadette I think of Blazing Saddles. =)

[elphie1415]

Oh! That would be marvelous! I would go see that production :3

[elphie1415]

No hun. You don't do that to this song. It is a tender song you don't belt it out. my god.

[boynamedalexxx]

You expected her to belt "Send In The Clowns"?

Oh dear...I can't even begin to respond to that.

[C. Andrew Semon]

Seriously guys? Bernadette Peters is well known to be one of Sondheim's greatest muses and one of the foremost interpreters of Sondheim's work. If she does it this way, then that's how it's meant to be done. This song was never meant to be belted. It was meant to be a plaintive musing with loads of emotion behind it.

[Hazza1234ish]

Agreed! 

[bluepaintednails]

agreed.

[TheChicagoprof]

Sondheim wrote "send in the clowns" to be acted more than sung; the original role of Desiree was envisioned as a speaking only (no singing) role, but just before the first tryouts Sondheim added this song to maximize the singing talents of the first actress to play Desiree. It was written to employ short phrases; belting it out was the last thing on Sondheim's mind.

[dolbinau]

The song was not written to be belted...it would have been insincere for the character.