Fast forward a decade to 2011, and Follies was revived on Broadway, starring Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, Jan ...
In the 1971 musical “Follies,” a group of long-retired singers and dancers reunite for one night at a crumbling Broadway theater that has been shut down for more than 30 years. The rarely performed ...
When it debuted in 1971, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Tony Award-winning musical Follies had one of the biggest budgets of any Broadway production. Its cast was huge with nearly 50 performers, ...
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Some musicals are pivotal, others seminal. Hair, when it opened on Broadway in 1968, was clearly pivotal: After it, the musical theater would be different. In contrast, when Stephen Sondheim and James ...
Kennedy Center's wildly popular Follies musical will be the latest Washington stage show to make the move to Broadway. The center announced yesterday that the $7.3 million production would move to the ...
The central characters are two married couples who used to be best friends: the rich, successful Ben (Ron Raines), his wife, Phyllis (Jan Maxwell), a cheery salesman, Buddy (Danny Burstein) and his ...
Is a serviceable Follies good enough? Yes, because the 1971 classic is such a rich, dark leap into regret, with a witty and poignant Sondheim score — and besides, the Eric Schaeffer-directed ...