Send In The Clowns magnificent 1975 studio version from album Judith synched with Judy Collins television broadcast performance and on-screen lyrics. See Judy Collins sing Send In The Clowns live at The Canyon, Agoura Hills, CA on May 11, 2013.
"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. The lyrics of the song are written in four verses and a bridge and sung by Desirée. As songwriter Stephen Sondheim explains, Desirée experiences both deep regret and furious anger: "Send in the Clowns" was never meant to be a soaring ballad; it's a song of regret. And it's a song of a lady who is too upset and too angry to speak-- meaning to sing for a very long time. She is furious, but she doesn't want to make a scene in front of Fredrik because she recognizes that his obsession with his 18-year-old wife is unbreakable. So she gives up; so it's a song of regret and anger, and therefore fits in with short-breathed phrases.

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