{"id":709,"date":"2009-12-02T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/12\/judi-dench-sings-send-in-the-clowns.html"},"modified":"2009-12-02T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:54:00","slug":"judi-dench-sings-send-in-the-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Judi Dench sings &quot;Send in the Clowns&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the first-ever Broadway revival of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Little Night Music <\/span>approaching its opening date, I&#8217;ve felt like revisiting all my various recordings and texts and video of previous productions. This one is a favorite. Dame Judi Dench won an Olivier Award for her triumphant performance as Desiree in the 1995 Royal National Theatre revival of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Little Night Music. <\/span>The production, directed by Sean Mathias, ran for 11 months and co-starred Sian Philips as Madame Armfeldt and Laurence Guittard (the original Broadway Carl Magnus) as Fredrik. A cast album of this production was made, but it has been long out of print and goes for extraordinary amounts on Amazon and E-Bay. However, if you do get the chance to hear it, you will not be disappointed. Especially in Dench&#8217;s sublime portrayal, my second favorite next to originator Glynis Johns.<\/p>\n<p>Here Dench appears on a British talkshow to promote the show and talks a little bit about the play and her character and the moments leading into &#8220;Send in the Clowns,&#8221; followed by a heartbreaking rendition of the song by the star. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0rEhOnd8S-8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0rEhOnd8S-8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the first-ever Broadway revival of A Little Night Music approaching its opening date, I&#8217;ve felt like revisiting all my various recordings and texts and video of previous productions. This one is a favorite. Dame Judi Dench won an Olivier Award for her triumphant performance as Desiree in the 1995 Royal National Theatre revival of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judi Dench sings &quot;Send in the Clowns&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1687,1981],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-a-little-night-music","tag-judi-dench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}