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Perhaps the most striking symbol of Britain's impact came in the West End opening last week of Follies, not so much a revival as a complete reconsideration of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical, set at a reunion of performers of Ziegfeld-style spectacles. The original version won five Tony Awards but lost nearly all its then awesome $800,000 investment, and save for a 1985 Lincoln Center concert version, there has been no revival. The $3 million-plus London production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according...
...offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran's brother, Billy Wilder, Burt Lancaster and, most notably, Aly Kahn ("He didn't take a woman, he tasted and taunted"). In his musical Follies, Stephen Sondheim wrote a song for the actress, I'm Still Here, about a survivor. After nearly half a century in the business, De Carlo, 64, is not afraid to name names or do denture-cleaner commercials. As her saline book vigorously demonstrates, she's still here...
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim...
...true theater enthusiasts out there here is yet another chance to enjoy the wonderful work of Stephen Sondheim, one of our greatest composers. Sondheim's lively music is technically challenging for both the orchestra and the performers, but the Winthrop crew pulls it off wonderfully...
...filled in 1983, when the La Jolla Playhouse opened on a suburban campus of the University of California at San Diego. Although the playhouse has staged musicals (including 1984's Big River, which went on to win seven Tony Awards on Broadway, and a 1985 reworking of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along overseen by the composer), most of its summerlong schedule consists of unfamiliar plays or eccentric looks at familiar ones. Against all odds, the company is becoming a financial as well as artistic success...