Shirley Bassey Send In The Clowns (1987 Live in Berlin)

1987 (Shirley s version of this musical classic Shirley performs in Berlin celebrating the cities existence for 750 years) ABOUT this song: Send in the Clowns is a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman s film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act II in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik. Meeting him after so long, she finds that he is now in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desirée proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desirée sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik s young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desirée s offer. Sondheim wrote the song specifi