Melissa Errico's video: Melissa Errico - Send In The Clowns Live

Filmed (at home) for Bay Street Theater's July 2020 virtual gala, musical directed by Andy Einhorn & piano by Tedd Firth. Quotes about the song from a conversation with associate artistic director Will Pomerantz: “'A Little Night Music' is one of my favorite Sondheim musicals and the actress Desiree Arnfeldt one of my favorite Sondheim roles, definitely among the most coveted Sondheim roles. As all Sondheimians know, it’s a musical based on a great Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman: 'Smiles Of A Summer Night,' -- a farcical and bittersweet picture of lechery and love in a country house in perpetual sunset of a Swedish summer in the first decade of the twentieth century. What people might not know is that all these love-agonized people were sitting right on the edge of an abyss. And it’s…our abyss, the one we have all been learning to navigate. You see, when the Spanish flu pandemic struck a decade later, it struck Sweden harder than anywhere else in Europe, devastating the population. Of the twenty or so people on stage in 'Night Music' probably five of them would have died from the pandemic a few short years later. For me, that knowledge adds an additional note of tragedy to this song, the greatest hymn I know to the fragility and pathos of a performer’s life. All our entrances and exits, in life as on stage, end up being unplanned, unpredictable, and maybe unknowable.“ For more on the gala: https://www.hamptons.com/Out-And-About/For-The-Cause/26652/Bay-Streets-A-Starry-Night-Virtual-Summer-Gala.html https://www.hamptons.com/Out-And-About/For-The-Cause/26678/INTERVIEW-Multi-Talented-Melissa-Errico-On-A.html Sondheim in The Hamptons: https://indyeastend.com/arts/entertainment/melissa-sublime-and-subliminal/