"Now!" Stephen R. Buntrock Falls for Bernadette Peters in Broadway's Night Music Starting Sept. 28 | Playbill

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News "Now!" Stephen R. Buntrock Falls for Bernadette Peters in Broadway's Night Music Starting Sept. 28 Stephen R. Buntrock, who began as one of the waltzing "liebeslieders" in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music last fall, steps into the role of Fredrik Egerman in the Tony-nominated production Sept. 28 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

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Stephen R. Buntrock and Bernadette Peters Photo by Joan Marcus

Buntrock succeeds original cast member Alexander Hanson, who played his final performance Sept. 26. The singing actor, who was the Teen Angel in the recent Broadway revival of Grease, created the role of Mr. Lindquist in this production of A Little Night Music, understudying servant Frid and lawyer Fredrik.

As the full-time Fredrik, he will woo two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters' actress character, Desirée Armfeldt. The company also includes Tony and Emmy winner Elaine Stritch as Madame Armfeldt, Bradley Dean as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, Erin Davie as Countess Charlotte Malcolm, Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Henrik Egerman and Ramona Mallory as Anne Egerman with Ron Bohmer, Ben Davis, Jessica Grové, Gina Lamparella, Katherine McNamara, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Keaton Whittaker, Karen Murphy, Erin Stewart and Kevin Vortmann.

Reading Playbill.com's September Leading Men column and meet Buntrock and castmate Bradley Dean. Buntrock's other Broadway credits include Curly in Oklahoma!, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, St. John in the original cast of Jane Eyre, Barrett in Titanic and Enjolras in the tenth anniversary cast of Les Miserables. He also covered the role of The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. Buntrock has toured extensively across the United States and Canada as Reuben in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and as Arnaud du Thil in Cameron Mackintosh's production of Martin Guerre.

Trevor Nunn directed the hauntingly spare revival of A Little Night Music, which originated at London's Menier Chocolate Factory last year prior to arriving on Broadway Nov. 24, 2009. Night Music officially opened Dec. 13 at the Walter Kerr.

A Little Night Music, according to the producers, "is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, long simmering passions and a taste of love's endless possibilities. Hailed as witty and wildly romantic, the story centers on the elegant actress Desirée Armfeldt and the spider's web of sensuality, intrigue and desire that surrounds her." The creative team includes Lynne Page (choreography), Caroline Humphris (musical supervision), David Farley (set and costume design), Hartley T A Kemp (lighting design), Dan Moses Shreier and Gareth Owen (sound design), Paul Huntley (wig design), Jason Carr (orchestrations) and Rob Bowman (musical direction).

A Little Night Music — featuring a score by Sondheim and a book by Wheeler — originally opened at Broadway's Shubert Theatre on Feb. 25, 1973, with a cast that included Glynis Johns as Desiree, Len Cariou as Fredrik and Hermione Gingold as Madame Armfeldt. The show, directed by Harold Prince, garnered five 1973 Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical. The Sondheim score features the composer's best-known tune, "Send in the Clowns," as well as "Every Day a Little Death," "The Miller's Son" and "A Weekend in the Country."

A Little Night Music is produced on Broadway by Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, The Menier Chocolate Factory, Roger Berlind, David Babani, Sonia Friedman Productions, Andrew Fell, Daryl Roth/Jane Bergère, Harvey Weinstein/Raise the Roof 3, Beverly Bartner/Dancap Productions, Inc., Nica Burns/Max Weitzenhoffer, Eric Falkenstein/Anna Czekaj, Jerry Frankel/Ronald Frankel, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer.

For more information, visit nightmusiconbroadway.com.

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Stephen R. Buntrock, Bernadette Peters and Bradley Dean
 
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