Laura Osnes, Penny Fuller & Mark Jacoby Headline Night Music in Westchester

The White Plains Performing Arts Center has announced the cast of its spring production of A Little Night Music, which starts performances on March 5 at the company’s theater in Westchester County, New York. Broadway favorites Penny Fuller, Mark Jacoby and Laura Osnes will be featured in he Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler 1973 Tony Award winner for Best Musical.

A Little Night Music, which is based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, follows three lovestruck couples as they lose, and find, each other during a long midsummer night on a country estate. The original Broadway production, which starred Len Cariou, Glynis Johns, Patricia Elliot, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard, opened at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973. The show later transferred to the Majestic Theatre on September 17, 1973, playing a total of 601 performances before closing on August 3, 1974. Night Music garnered six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Original Score. The show is best known for its heartbreaking Sondheim score, featuring songs such as "Send in the Clowns" and "The Miller's Son."

A two-time Tony nominee, Fuller was last seen on Broadway in Dividing the Estate, her eighth Broadway appearance. Other notable roles include Corie Bratter in Barefoot in the Park, Sally Bowles in Cabaret and Eve Harrington in the original company of Applause. She will play the role of Desiree in A Little Night Music. Jacoby, cast as Fredrick, is another longtime Broadway veteran, having appeared in Sweet Charity, The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel, Show Boat Tony nomination, Ragtime, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd. Osnes, who plays Anne, made her Broadway debut in 2007 as Sandy in the recent revival of Grease, having won the leading role by appearing on the popular NBC reality TV search Grease: You’re the One That I Want.

Also featured in A Little Night Music are Sheila Smith a member of the original Broadway company of Follies as Madame Armfeldt, Rachel de Benedet Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as Charlotte, Laura D’Adre as Petra, Eddie Egan as Henrik, Katie Henney as Fredrika and Michael Markham as Frid. The role of Count Carl-Magnus will be announced as a later date.

A Little Night Music features direction by Sidney J. Burgoyne, a regular at the White Plains Performing Arts Center.