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WHY A GREAT SONG WAS DROPPED FROM A GREAT MUSICAL By Peter Filichia
…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…
HERE’S HERE’S LOVE By Peter Filichia
…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…
REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM By Peter Filichia
…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,…
CRAZY BUSINESS, THIS MUSICAL LIFE WE LIVE IN By Peter Filichia
…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.”…
John Kander’s Most Unexpected Birthday Gift By Peter Filichia
…that the three, independently of each other, would give the world CABARET, CHICAGO, FOLLIES, THE LION IN WINTER, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN —…