Follies

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Follies is a celebrated Stephen Sondheim musical that nostalgically explores aging, memory, and lost dreams through a reunion of former showgirls in a crumbling Broadway theater.

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instanceOf Broadway musical ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ
award Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Musical nomination ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Original Score nomination ⓘ
bookBy James Goldman ⓘ
choreographer Michael Bennett ⓘ
coDirector Michael Bennett ⓘ
composer Stephen Sondheim ⓘ
costumeDesigner Florence Klotz ⓘ
director Harold Prince ⓘ
featuresFictionalImpresario Dimitri Weismann ⓘ
genre concept musical ⓘ
dramatic musical ⓘ
hasTheme illusion versus reality ⓘ
nostalgia ⓘ
regret ⓘ
inspiredBy Ziegfeld Follies ⓘ
lyricist Stephen Sondheim ⓘ
musicalStyle pastiche of early 20th-century Broadway and vaudeville ⓘ
notableSong Broadway Baby ⓘ
Could I Leave You? ⓘ
In Buddy’s Eyes ⓘ
I’m Still Here ⓘ
Losing My Mind ⓘ
The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues ⓘ
The Road You Didn’t Take ⓘ
Too Many Mornings ⓘ
Waiting for the Girls Upstairs ⓘ
Who’s That Woman? ⓘ
orchestrator Jonathan Tunick ⓘ
originalBroadwayCity New York City ⓘ
originalBroadwayRunEnd 1972-07-01 ⓘ
originalBroadwayRunStart 1971-04-04 ⓘ
originalBroadwayTheatre Winter Garden Theatre ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
plotSummary Former Weismann showgirls reunite in a soon-to-be-demolished theater and confront their past choices and illusions. ⓘ
premiereCity New York City ⓘ
premiereCountry United States ⓘ
premiereDate 1971-04-04 ⓘ
premiereLocation Winter Garden Theatre ⓘ
producer Cyril Ritchard ⓘ
Harold Prince ⓘ
setDesigner Boris Aronson ⓘ
setting crumbling Broadway theater ⓘ
settingTime 1971 ⓘ
subject aging ⓘ
lost dreams ⓘ
marital disillusionment ⓘ
memory ⓘ

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Michael Bennett → notableWork → Follies ⓘ
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Alvin Theatre → notableProduction → Follies ⓘ
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Emerson Colonial Theatre → notableProduction → Follies (pre-Broadway engagement) ⓘ
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