Follies

Synopsis

A celebration set in an empty theatre in New York where a reunion party is being thrown for several generations of "Follies" performers and their escorts. Includes "Beautiful Girls", "Losing My Mind", "I'm Still Here" and "Broadway Baby".

Our Review:

25 October 2010

The songs of the Stephen Sondheim’s Follies are familiar to anyone who has a heart in musical theatre. The setting is also sadly familiar concerning as it does the bulldozing of a theatre in order to provide Broadway with another car park facility.

This is the closing night and old and new members of the company are joining up to celebrate its demise. The beautiful girls of the current ensemble punctuate the story as two couples who are meeting after many years display their marital problems with occasional contributions from their younger selves

But the plot is immaterial and the production is really about Sondheim’s wonderful numbers – some of the wittiest he ever wrote, which deliver a musical treat for both the audience and for the actors who get to perform them.

With 26 in the cast and about the same number of songs, it is not possible to single out more than one or two. Perhaps the most famous is “I’m Still H...

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Latest User Review

Ray Rackham - 15 November 2010:

I agree. I loved the show and what could be achieved in the space and budget was bang on the money! Great performances....

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