Aren't they rich?
When some of the best of Broadway—who play the wealthy denizens of Manhattan during The Gilded Age—are waiting for the rain to pass while filming a scene in Newport, Rhode Island, turns out they do what the rest of us do to kill time: sing Broadway showtunes.
Tony winner Donna Murphy, who plays Mrs. Astor, captured the company performing a unique rendition of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" while waiting for filming to restart. In a nod to the original interpreter Glynis Johns, watch Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Kelli O'Hara, and more tackle the A Little Night Music classic in the Instagram video below, posted by co-star Murphy.
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In February 1973 Broadway audiences first heard the Sondheim ballad "Send in the Clowns," when Johns created the role of Desiree Armfeldt in the Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music, which won 1973 Tony Awards for Johns, Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Patricia Elliott), and Best Costume Design. Both Frank Sinatra and Judy Collins subsequently recorded "Send in the Clowns," making the song what is still, perhaps, Sondheim's best-known tune.
It was recently announced that The Gilded Age has been renewed for a fourth season. The third season finale of the Julian Fellowes-created series debuted on HBO Max August 10.
The large, ensemble cast of the period series has an unusually large faction of Broadway vets, including Coon, Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Ashlie Atkinson, Dylan Baker, Kate Baldwin, Victoria Clark, John Ellison Conlee, Michael Cumpsty, Kelley Curran, Jordan Donica, Jessica Frances Dukes, Claybourne Elder, Amy Forsyth, Jack Gilpin, LisaGay Hamilton, Ward Horton, Simon Jones, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Nathan Lane, Andrea Martin, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Paul Alexander Nolan, O’Hara, Patrick Page, Rachel Pickup, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, Bobby Steggert, Erin Wilhelmi, John Douglas Thompson, Leslie Uggams, Bill Camp, and Phylicia Rashad.
The series takes place in turn-of-the-century New York and follows
new money socialite Bertha Russell (played by Coon) as she navigates
high society.
The cast also includes Louisa Jacobson, Ben Ahlers, Kelley Curran, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, and Blake Ritson.
Jordan Donica and Denée Benton
Phylicia Rashad
Audra McDonald and Denée Benton
Morgan Spector, Carrie Coon, and Harry Richardson
Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski
Harry Richardson and Louisa Jacobson
CJ Wilson, Morgan Spector, and Patrick Page
Carrie Coon
Ben Lamb and Tasisa Farmiga
