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My Essential Stephen Sondheim: Disc One By Peter Filichia
…endorsement of marriage: “I’ve done it three or four times.” 11. “Beautiful Girls” (Follies) – The Best Opening Number of All Time. To an Irving Berlinish pretty melody, the beautiful…
THEY WERE MAID FOR MUSICALS By Peter Filichia
…later when the producer of the original cast album of FOLLIES truncated many songs and dropped others. Bless FOLLIES IN CONCERT for making amends and letting us hear every lyric…
STEPHEN SONDHEIM: AN APPRECIATION By Peter Filichia
…tried something so daringly different and found success with the people who mattered most to him, he was emboldened to try something new every time. FOLLIES in 1971 also dared…
DOES MERRILY HAVE AN OUTSIDERS’ CHANCE? By Peter Filichia
…was not at all sorry but considerably grateful for the results. He may not have been as happy the following year, when GODSPELL’s cast album beat FOLLIES’. That will seem…
Jerry Herman’s Broadway
…the first star was Carol Channing and the list of others that have followed – Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, etc. – reads…