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…one worked in the show, but they all work here. I was surprised to discover the wealth of Follies material extant on RCA. Much of it was written and discarded…

…Barbara Cook had never performed a Sondheim song before being cast as Sally Durant in the concert version of Follies with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bringing her peerless artistry…

…Follies. For the record, the runners-up are Streisand in Funny Girl, Merman in Gypsy, and then the original casts of West Side Story and Show Boat. But Follies is the…

…you some re- / lief” (“Everybody’s Got the Right”). Sondheim also split a word that didn’t result in a rhyme, but sure packed a punch. In “Buddy’s Blues” in FOLLIES,…

…BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, CABARET, COMPANY, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, RAISIN, ANNIE, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, SWEENEY TODD, JEROME ROBBINS’ BROADWAY, THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, THE PRODUCERS, HAIRSPRAY and KINKY BOOTS all…