Peters, Stritch to join 'Music' cast

NEW YORK, June 7 (UPI) -- Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch will succeed Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury in the cast of Broadway's "A Little Night Music," producers said.

Zeta-Jones and Lansbury are to play their final performance in the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical June 20. After that, the production at Manhattan's Walter Kerr Theatre will be dark until performances resume July 13 -- with Peters starring as Desiree Armfeldt and Stritch as Madame Armfeldt, the show's producers said Monday.