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Bookmark or Share- Follies - WikipediaFollies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The plot centers on a crumbling Broadway theater, now scheduled for demolition, previously home to a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies). The evening follows a reunion of the Weismann Girls who performed during the interwar period. Several of ...
- Follies: Musical Info & Synopsis - Theatre TripFollies delves into the lives of former showgirls who reunite at a dilapidated Broadway theatre. Set against the backdrop of the theatre’s impending destruction, two couples, Sally and Buddy, and Phyllis and Ben, are forced confront their past and present.
- Follies - Everything SondheimFollies, Sondheim’s seventh Broadway production, began as The Girls Upstairs, a collaboration with bookwriter James Goldman about some young women in a Ziegfeld-like extravaganza and the stage-boy Johnnies who courted them.
- Follies - FILMED LIVE MUSICALSSet in the dilapidated and soon-to-be demolished Weisman Theatre, former performers from the Weisman’s Follies remember the trials and tribulations of their younger selves. Follies is celebrated by critics and historians as one of Sondheim’s greatest musicals.
- Sondheim Guide / FolliesPerformed in English with French surtitles. New York: Music of the Times Pub. Corp [C. Hansen, dist.], 1971; 52 pp. [same as above] A guide to the work of Stephen Sondheim, including production information, publications, recordings, a complete song listing and more.
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