No song better encapsulates Sondheim’s commitment to songwriting as storytelling than his greatest hit, “Send in the Clowns.” As Tony and Oliver Award-nominated performer Haydn Gwynne prepares to put her stamp on ‘Send in the Clowns’ as Desiree Armfeldt at the Huntington this fall, she has found, ‘where the song really works is in the context of the scene as a piece of emotional storytelling. I’m not going to be approaching it as a singer as much as from an acting point of view.’
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