The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama presents Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, a musical inspired by a book of the same name by Hugh Wheeler, which in turn was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night.
Julia Mosby is a junior B.F.A. student in musical theater at IU. She was recently seen as Mrs. Lyons in Blood Brothers and as Kate in Oklahoma!
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"Desiree is first and last an actress," Julia says of the part she plays. "She was raised by a magnificent mother, a woman who had many affairs and she has followed in her footsteps. In A Little Night Music, Desiree has come to a weekend house party. There she meets an old love who has recently married a much younger woman. The younger woman is just seventeen. She's a bit of a trophy wife. Desiree gets to twit her old love a bit about this."
On the work of costume designer Erica Griese, Mosby says, "Erica is a third-year M.F.A. student and she's really good. IU audiences have seen her work in shows as varied as The Clean House, An Ideal Husband, The Wild Party and Metamorphoses. For A Little Night Music the costumes are period, much layered, and very elaborate. I have seen the drawings and the fabrics, but we're still in process. What I can say is that we've been practicing in the corsets. Audiences are going to see some pretty upright postures in this show."