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TWO FAIRY TALES: HAMMERSTEIN’S AND SONDHEIM’S By Peter Filichia
…women, Sondheim wanted to examine what happens to a marriage over a period of time. (Sound familiar? It’s what he did in FORUM, COMPANY, FOLLIES, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC…
LISTEN TO CHILDREN THROUGH HAMMERSTEIN AND SONDHEIM
…children are nowhere to be found until the curtain call. In FOLLIES, Phyllis and Ben as well as Sally and Buddy sing about their future married life – the former…
CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? By Peter Filichia
…else could a woman go? JUNO shows us one awful marriage; FOLLIES shows us two. Ben and Phyllis Stone, despite their wealth and prestige, aren’t any happier than ordinary middle-classers…
PICTURE THIS: HIRSCHFELD AND SONDHEIM By Peter Filichia
…when FOLLIES opened, NANETTE was part of the nostalgia boom on Broadway.) And other drawings sneak in because of their association, however tangential, with Sondheim. Because Lansbury appeared on Broadway…