Tag: Follies

  • Dear Stephen Sondheim, may we suggest

    Dear Stephen Sondheim, may we suggest

      Stephen Sondheim has just announced  that his multi-Tony Award winning Musical FOLLIES is finally going to be made into a movie almost 50 years since it first opened on Broadway .  That original production directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett,  starring  Alexis Smith (Phyllis), John McMartin (Ben), Dorothy Collins (Sally), Gene Nelson (Buddy), Yvonne De Carlo,  (Carmen) won 7 Tonys.  However …

  • Imelda Staunton is a stunning Broadway Baby

    Imelda Staunton is a stunning Broadway Baby

      Last year London’s National Theater revived Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical Follies for the very first time since it was first originally produced in the UK some 30 years ago.  The production with a star-studded cast led by Imelda Staunton garnered rave reviews and was both a critical and commercial success and so the Theater telecast a performance…