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…8½ around the time Stephen Sondheim was enjoying his third consecutive year of receiving Tonys (for COMPANY, FOLLIES and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC). Could Yeston have ever imagined then that…

…title, but he did direct and raise the money for the next iteration of the show, which by that time had been renamed FOLLIES.) (And what am I bid for…

…she later proved she had musical theater ability when eight years later this Alexis Smith starred in FOLLIES. But there’s no mention of whether or not this was either a…

…songwriter as anyone else. Next came FOLLIES with its incomparable opening number “Beautiful Girls.” Sondheim’s Irving Berlin-tinged melody had lyrics that only he could have written: “Beauty celestial; the best,…

…is a virtually extinct profession, and understandably so. I mean, does anyone still wear a hat?) FOLLIES’ Sally Durant Plummer sings in Sondheim’s bolt-of-lightning showpiece that she’s “Losing My Mind.”…