Book By: James Goldman
Muisc By: Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics By: Stephen Sondheim
Directed By: Harold Prince and Michael Bennett
Music Director: Harold Hastings
Choreography By: Michael Bennett
Show Status: Closed
Based on:
The musical centers around a reunion of showgirls who appeared in an annual Follies extravaganza when it was staged between the wars. Sally and Phyllis are two of these former showgirls, now middle-aged. Sally is married to Buddy, and Phyllis is married to Ben. Sally is unhappy with Buddy, and still is madly in love with Ben after a brief affair they had when they were younger. Phyllis is going to divorce Ben, so all seems right. But the reason Phyllis is divorcing Ben is because he is incapable of showing real, genuine love. Will Sally truly be happy if she leaves Buddy and marries Ben? The show features frequent "pastiche numbers" in which other former showgirls perform numbers in the style of the period in which this Follies was staged. These numbers, juxtaposed against the moving "book songs," make for a truly brilliant score.
Alexis Smith
Gene Nelson
Dorothy Collins
John McMartin
Yvonne DeCarlo
Fifi D'Orsay
Mary McCarty
Ethel Shutta
Arnold Moss
Ethel Barrymore Colt
Michael Bartlett
Sheila Smith
Justine Johnston
Virginia Sandifur
Kurt Peterson
Victoria Mallory
Marti Rolph.
Prologue
Beautiful Girls
Don't Look at Me
Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
Rain on the Roof
Ah, Paree!
Broadway Baby
The Road You Didn't Take
In Buddy's Eyes
Bolero d'Amour
Who's That Woman?
I'm Still Here
Too Many Mornings
The Right Girl
One More Kiss
Could I Leave You?
Loveland
You're Gonna Love Tomorrow
Love Will See Us Through
The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues (Buddy's Blues)
Losing My Mind
The Story of Lucy and Jessie
Ah, But Underneath (added in the 1998 papermill production)
Live, Laugh, Love
Finale
Stephen Sondheim's Follies in Concert DVD
Stephen Sondheim's Follies in Concert VHS
The Stephen Sondheim Collection DVD
Follies (Highlights from the 1971 Original Broadway Cast)
Follies - The Complete Recording (1998 New Jersey Cast)
Follies in Concert (1985 Live Performance)
Follies (Highlights from the 1987 London Revival Cast)
Follies: A Broadway Legend (Excerpts)
Follies [Original London Cast]
Stephen Sondheim's Follies: Themes From The Legendary Musical