A Little Night Music is the Stephen Sondheim musical with Send in the Clowns in it, and Cape Town Opera is staging it at Theatre on the Bay from 30 June to 12 July 2026.1,2
It unfolds over a single midsummer weekend, as former lovers reunite, marriages falter, and jealousies ignite.1 Fred Abrahamse directs and designs the set, and José Dias is the musical director, conducting from the piano.1
The cast is the headline. Jonathan Roxmouth and Samantha Peo lead as Fredrik Egerman and the actress Desirée Armfeldt, with Aviva Pelham as Madame Armfeldt, Marcel Meyer as Count Carl-Magnus, and Kate Normington as Countess Charlotte.2,1 That is a concentration of South African musical-theatre and opera names you would more often see headlining separately.
If you are weighing whether to go: This is a witty, grown-up musical in an intimate room, sung by a cast of leads. Tickets are on sale at Theatre on the Bay.
