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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,…

…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!”…