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FOLLIES. Apart from being dazzlingly lovely, this musical is wise in heart. Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics beguile the ear while seducing the mind, and the Corybantic ardor of Michael Bennett's dancers is a sight for glad eyes...
Perhaps it's only a sign of encroaching age, but it's tone of voice I find myself forced to respect and, I'm afraid, even admire. It's an attitude that's also common to Furth's collaboration with Stephen Sondheim in Company and Sondheim's collaboration with James Goldman in Follies as well as in certain passages of Neil Simon's latest work. (Without being lit crit about it all. I even find something in these plays, call it perhaps an aura of faded expectation, that reminds me of the heroes and heroincs one finds in the novels...
...become the innocence of a blatantly naive confection like No, No Nanette. Sophistication ages far less gracefully. As writer-performers, Comden and Green have long since been overshadowed by teams like Nichols and May, as lyricists they're a long, long way from the current sophistication of a Stephen Sondheim. Twenty-seven years later, much of the humor of On the Town comes across as simply dumb. Here and there a nice try, perhaps, but nonetheless dumb. Consider a number like "Carried Away," sung by Ozzie and Claire de Lune, a female anthropologist played by Phillis Newman. (The two parts...
...Sondheim would, and did: To find a rhyme for silver Or any "rhymeless" rhyme Requires only will, verBosity and time...
...Jewish Defense League, editorially scolded by the New York Times, and flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic Chic: 125 guests (including Producer-Director Harold Prince, Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Cartoonist-Playwright Jules Feiffer) raised some $35,000 to help defend Father Philip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, and the other six antiwarriors accused of plotting to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger and blow up some of the federal heating system. For some reason, nobody from the press was invited...