He creates what's necessary for the piece. Washington, DC, Auditons for AMDA (Washington) YOUNG HEIDI - The celebrated soprano in her heyday. Host Scott Simon speaks with Peters about Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical. CARLOTTA CAMPION - A resilient motion picture star, once a vamp, then Follies has had 20 productions including Broadway which opened in 1971, Broadway which opened in 1971, US Tour which opened in 1972, Off . Were Still Here! However, the show did not do well in its Los Angeles engagement and plans for a tour ended. SIMON: And you were talking like this or something? And as years went on and I got out of that bad habit, my real voice revealed itself. I dare you not to fall in love with Betty Garrett's understated "Broadway Baby" you just want to pick her up and hug her. "[123] The recording of the 2011 revival was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Musical Theater Album category. [39], A full production ran at the Forum Theatre, Wythenshawe, England, from April 30, 1985, directed by Howard Lloyd-Lewis, design by Chris Kinman, costumes by Charles Cusick-Smith, lighting by Tim Wratten, musical direction by Simon Lowe, and choreographed by Paul Kerryson. Not only has it already outsold every other album at our website, but the steady stream of emails from customers has been amazing. and matronly starlets, veterans of a more innocent age of entertainment, It's like I'm losing my mind. [86] A two-disc cast album of this production was recorded by PS Classics and was released on November 29, 2011. (Who's That Woman), shadowy wraiths of their younger selves Follies premiered on Broadway on April 4, 1971, at the Winter Garden Theatre. OTHER GUESTS and PERFORMERS, STAGE MANAGER, concert for The New York Times, wrote: "I have never felt the splendid sadness of Follies as acutely as I did watching the emotionally transparent concert production At almost any moment, to look at the faces of any of the principal performers is to be aware of people both bewitched and wounded by the contemplation of who they used to be. '"[46] The Times critic Irving Wardle stated "It is not much of a story, and whatever possibilities it may have had in theory are scuppered by James Goldman's book a blend of lifeless small-talk, bitching and dreadful gags". Christine Baranski played Carlotta, and Lucine Amara sang Heidi. Ms. PETERS: And then I got the call when I was I was performing at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, James Lapine called me to say he wrote this new show with Stephen Sondheim and it's to play an artist model. Stephen Sondheim, Hattie Walker is a retired star of the Weismann Follies, an iconic. Buddy warns Phyllis that Sally is still in love with Ben, and she is shaken by how the past threatens to repeat itself. And I usually do things that are different and a challenge and interesting to me to approach. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Playing Hattie who sings "Broadway Baby" is Patti Davis Suarez. Kinky Boots (Original 2013 Broadway Cast) Cyndi Lauper, Billy Porter & Stark Sands. At its very start, ghosts of Follies showgirls stalk the stage, mythic giants in winged, feathered, black and white opulence. [74] Having originated the young ghosts over 30 years prior, the actors portrayed the older versions of their Broadway roles. Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal noted that "One of the signal achievements of this Follies is that it succeeds in untangling each and every strand of the show's knotty plot Mr. Schaeffer is clearly unafraid of the darkness of Follies, so much so that the first act is bitter enough to sting. She accuses him of having affairs while he is on the road, and he admits he has a steady girlfriend, Margie, in another town, but always returns home. declares I'm Still Here. He had agreed to work on The Girls Upstairs if Sondheim agreed to work on Company; Michael Bennett, the young choreographer of Company, was also brought onto the project. Solange purrs her way through the fake Gallic sophistication [23] The 1987 West End, 2005 Barrington Stage Company,[24] the 2001 Broadway revival[25] and Kennedy Center 2011 productions were performed in two acts. Broadway Baby, Learning how to sing and dance, Waiting for that one big chance To be in a show.Oh.Gee.' I'd like to be On some marquee, All twinkling lights, Ben, goaded, starts to argue with Phyllis, Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. The theatermania.com reviewer wrote that "The result is an album that, more so than any of the other existing recordings, allows listeners to re-experience the heartbreaking collision of past and present that's at the core of the piece. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Produced at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, The Paper Mill Playhouse production used some elements from London but stayed close to the original. [128], In November 2019, it was announced that Dominic Cooke will adapt the screenplay as well as direct, following the successful 2017 National Theatre revival in London, which returned in 2019 due to popular demand.[129]. [40] The cast included Mary Millar (Sally Durant Plummer), Liz Izen (Young Sally), Meg Johnson (Stella Deems), Les Want (Max Deems), Betty Benfield (Heidi Schiller), Joseph Powell (Roscoe), Chili Bouchier (Hattie Walker), Shirley Greenwood (Emily Whitman), Bryan Burdon (Theodore Whitman), Monica Dell (Solange LaFitte), Jeannie Harris (Carlotta Campion), Josephine Blake (Phyllis Rogers Stone), Kevin Colson (Ben), Debbie Snook (Young Phyllis), Stephen Hale (Young Ben), Bill Bradley (Buddy Plummer), Paul Burton (Young Buddy), David Scase (Dimitri Weismann), Mitch Sebastian (Young Vincent), Kim Ismay (Young Vanessa), Lorraine Croft (Young Stella), and Meryl Richardson (Young Heidi). This Roundabout Theatre limited engagement had been expected to close on September 30, 2001. You know, I'll do it for, like, at least a year and then beyond that. YOUNG BUDDY - The eager young beau of a Follies chorine. (1999 Broadway Revival Cast) Cole Porter, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Michael Berresse & Amy Spanger. After exiting, Buddy escorts the emotionally devastated[5] Sally back to their hotel with the promise to work things out later. Sally is awed by Ben's apparently glamorous life, but Ben wonders if he made the right choices and considers how things might have been ("The Road You Didn't Take"). "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" - Ben, Sally, Phyllis and Buddy, Young Ben, Young Sally, Young Phyllis and Young Buddy. "Review: Musical Theatre 1998 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival". Phyllis kisses a waiter and confesses to him that she had always wanted a son. In a jazzy dance number, accompanied by a squadron of chorus boys, Phyllis reflects on the two sides of her personality, one naive and passionate and the other jaded and sophisticated and her desire to combine them ("The Story of Lucy and Jessie"). That paradox is crystallized in " One More Kiss ," warbled by an ancient Viennese soprano while . Suddenly, at the peak of madness and confusion, the couples are engulfed by their follies, which transform the rundown theater into a fantastical "Loveland", an extravaganza even more grand and opulent than the gaudiest Weismann confection: "the place where lovers are always young and beautiful, and everyone lives only for love". Broadway impresario Dimitri Weismann arranges a reunion of the actors, singers, dancers, and personalities who peopled his famous Follies in the years between the World Wars, as a farewell tribute to the doomed building. It originally was performed in one act. But they're both She's hale and hearty, singing and swinging better than ever. years ago". The four characters are "whisked into a dream show in which each acts out his or her own principal 'folly'". Arlington, VA, Camp Director at Traveling Players Ensemble New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. [19] However, the August 23, 2011 Broadway preview performance was performed without an intermission. in. 'A truly fantastic evening,' The Financial Times concluded, while the London Daily News stated 'The musical is inspired,' and The Times described the evening as 'a wonderful idea for a show which has failed to grow into a story. Bennett also reprised her Olivier-nominated performance. The song was "One More Kiss", and the compromise was that if there was time, it would be recorded, even if Jones couldn't promise it would end up on the album. by Stephen SIMON: Stephen Sondheim wrote "Broadway Baby" in the early 1970s for "Follies," the award-winning musical he created with James Goldman. 'Follies'. Several show-stopping routines are provided by choreographer Warren Carlyle." HEIDI SCHILLER - A 90-year old Broadway legend, whose ringing soprano inspired the operetta kings to produce their lushest waltzes. RCA VICTOR RD 87128 - Concert recording You know, when I went to see "A Little Night Music," before I was even knew I was going to be in it, the music started and I went: Oh my God, I can't believe the person that wrote all those other things also wrote this. But when. THEODORE WHITMAN - Emily's husband. The youthful ghosts of the four leads are winning portrayed by Erin Dilly, Richard Roland, Joey Sorge and Lauren Ward. [72] Hal Linden originally was going to play Ben, but left because he was cast in the Broadway revival of Cabaret as Herr Schultz. This show features the wistful torch song Losing My Mind, the wry showstopper Im Still Here, and Broadway Baby, that determined ode to making it in show business. Inspired by a New York Times article about a gathering of former Ziegfeld Girls, they decided upon a story about ex-showgirls. Young Phyllis, Ben, Sally and Buddy taunt their disillusioned It starred Alexis Smith (Phyllis), John McMartin (Ben), Dorothy Collins (Sally), Gene Nelson (Buddy), along with several veterans of the Broadway and vaudeville stage. Whitman recall their sweetly naive duct, Rain on the Roof: the memories of three decades come flooding back - all those [83], Reviews were mixed, with Ben Brantley of The New York Times writing "It wasn't until the second act that I fell in love all over again with Follies". Hard-hitting drama about a man who discovers that he has fathered a child only when he is approached by a child support agency. [42], The musical played in the West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre on July 21, 1987, and closed on February 4, 1989, after 644 performances. Variety gave a very favorable review to the "lavish and entirely satisfying production", saying that Schaeffer directs "in methodical fashion, building progressively to a crescendo exactly as Sondheim does with so many of his stirring melodies. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, often accompanied by the ghosts of their younger selves. And then it goes on and on to start crumbling around her and her huge disappointment. New York, the eponymous Dimitri Weismann has gathered together As the guests reminisce, the stories of Ben, Phyllis, Buddy, and Sally unfold. [50][51], A production also ran from March to April 1995 at the Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, Texas, and in April to May 1995 at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle with Constance Towers (Phyllis), Judy Kaye (Sally), Edie Adams, Denise Darcel, Virginia Mayo, Maxene Andrews (Hattie), and Karen Morrow (Carlotta). When Sally sees Ben, her former lover, she greets him self-consciously ("Don't Look at Me"). Walking off my tired feet. YOUNG HEIDI - The celebrated soprano in her heyday. FIRST NIGHT ENCORE CD3 - London Cast. Phyllis raunchily sings The ", "Little White House", "It Wasn't Meant to Happen", "Pleasant Little Kingdom", "That Old Piano Roll Rag", "The World's Full of Girls", "Bring On The Girls"[7] [8] and "Uptown Downtown". EMILY WHITMAN - The female half of a cheerful song and dance team. The show closed on July 1, 1972, after 522 performances and 12 previews. [121] However, as Kritzerland Records head Bruce Kimmel wrote in his liner notes to Kritzerland's remixed version of the album, "What it did have made it something that, despite the frustrations, meant it would never be bettered the original cast. and soon Sally and Buddy, together with their younger selves, join screen goddess Carlotta Campion to the most nondescript chorine, As the ghosts of the young showgirls slowly drift through the theater, a majordomo enters with his entourage of waiters and waitresses.

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