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…a Sondheim show. “MERRILY!” you exclaimed because it went backwards in time. You’re wrong: it’s FOLLIES, which makes more sense, for it received much better reviews that had no trouble…

…COMPANY, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, SWEENEY TODD), one that must have just missed the prize by a wisp of a whisker (FOLLIES), and, for better or worse, MERRILY, too. Hence…

…stay around for a half-year? The early 1970s were Sondheim’s heyday; after COMPANY, FOLLIES and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, enough of an audience couldn’t wait to see what he’d do…

…Feldshuh, portraying Fanny’s mother Rose, would win the prize. How funny she and Grimes are when expressing their fears that Fanny’s getting hired by the Ziegfeld Follies will result in…

…one that won the Tony.” Yes, the one that beat out FOLLIES. Don’t you want to know what Sondheim felt about that, even in 2017? We can guess that Max…