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Send In The Clowns: The Ballads Of Stephen Sondheim
…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…
Ethan Mordden ON SONDHEIM by Peter Filichia
…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…
SONDHEIM: WORDPLAY at the 92nd Street Y By Peter Filichia
…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,…
MANY CHOICES FOR KAREN NASH By Peter Filichia
…Karen. It apparently did for Phyllis Rogers Stone. As she sings in FOLLIES, “Could I bury my rage with a boy half your age in the grass? Bet your ass!”…
Sutton Foster
…Rogers Follies before she graduated. A replacement and understudy in Les Misérables and Grease during the mid-1990s, Foster had her first named roles – as the Dog Catcher, Cecille, A…