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This is the best-acted, best-sung production of the
Stephen Sondheim musical Follies I've seen and yet it's
still not the Follies of my dreams. It's an elaborate,
wildly expensive show to mount when you follow thevision of that fabled 1971 edition that was housed in theWinter Garden where Mamma Mia! now holds court.
Follies is so daunting in its size that the show is much
more popular as a staple of all-star concerts. And nowonder -- the score is filled with one terrific Sondheimnumber after another. That's not the only reason Folliesworks so well in that context. At heart, it's a very quiet,
intimate, heartbreaker of a show and it should be seen in close-up both psychologically and literally. Butall those showgirls and feathers and costumes cost a lot of money, so here is Follies in a space perfect for
a spectacle like Showboat .
I can't stop imagining this cast in a stripped down production where you don't have a three-tieredmassive set, where you don't have ghosts wandering around all over the place but (mostly) imagine themand where we can savor the pros in an atmosphere like the casual reunion we're supposed to witness.Instead the show's atmosphere is rather formal and grand, in the style of the follies of old. Those follieswent out of style because they lacked any emotional oomph; some day Follies will learn the same lesson.
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This show is all about shattered dreams so I suppose it's appropriate for me to cling onto the fantasy of a
small, stripped-down Follies , just like one-time showgirl Sally (Bernadette Peters) holds onto the dream
of running off with the handsome and successful Ben when Ben isn't remotely interested in anythingmore than a quickie.
Sally's illusions will be shattered at a 1971 reunion party of the Wiseman troupe, the performers who
starred in a Ziegfeld Follies-style annual spectacle between the wars. Act One is truly astonishing as thetroupers gather around and inevitably break out some of their classic routines. What a challenge forSondheim. Not only does he have to write songs in a bygone style, he needs to make us to believe these
are classics and yet have them familiar enough to let us buy these performances are old friends in a way
for everyone involved. Needless to say, he succeeds.
The nostalgia piles on in fascinating ways: we get the artificial nostalgia of hearing brand-new songs
presented as oldies but goodies and we get the genuine nostalgia of seeing veterans of a certain age enjoyyet another (and perhaps one last) chance to strut their stuff on stage, bringing with them all the historyof their long love affair with the biz. That's achieved effortlessly with a trio of tunes. Susan Watson and
Don Correia have great fun with the novelty number "Rain On The Roof." Mary Beth Piele lands "Ah,
Paris!" And then Jane Houdyshell (who wins over the crowd every moment she's on the stage with
practiced ease) knocks it out of the park with "Broadway Baby."
In between those "performances" of old we learn of the tangled relationship between Sally and Ben (a
very good Ron Raines) and the miserable unhappiness of their respective spouses Buddy (DannyBurstein) and Phyllis (an excellent Jan Maxwell). Then it's topped by an even better show-stopper whenTerri White leads the whole gang in the sensational "Who's That Woman." It's so marvelous a scatterednumber of people in the audience bolted for the exits, assuming they'd just seen the act one finale. Nope,that song is followed by Elaine Paige embodying "I'm Still Here" (she triumphs by letting that song sellitself). Even that's not the end of the act, since as I said Follies truly yearns to be a gentle show. So after
those two crowd-pleasers, it comes to a poignant end with the duet "Too Many Mornings" and Buddylooking on from the wings as his wife Sally and Ben indulge in a kiss.
What a first act, filled with so many performers you want to see each and every one of these actors in
their own show, soon. You could go home happy. (Indeed, I think one of the greatest nights of theaterimaginable would be seeing the first act of Follies , followed by the first act of Into The Woods and then
the first act of Sunday In The Park With George . Hey, a fella can dream, can't he?)
Act Two explodes all the fantasies indulged in by those antiquated musical revues. Instead of oldvaudeville numbers, we get new vaudeville numbers that use the old forms to tell complex, wrenchingtales of broken hearts. Intellectually, I understand it. But it's rather static in a way because most of the
songs tell us what we already learned in Act One, albeit with a little more self-awareness. But what
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reaches out for Phyllis one more time.
So yes the production may be so top-heavy (as Sondheim demands) and so grand in the follies style that
it's always fighting an uphill battle for the intimacy the story demands. The design is exactly what
Sondheim describes but it did feel like a redux of the Roundabout revival a decade ago. The draping of
grey curtains was probably the only way to make the modern Marquis feel decrepit, but the general feel
was more haunted house (in a hokey way) than faded glory.
But when a musical has this many great songs and this many great performers, it's hard to go wrong. Did
I mention much of the cast is mirrored by actors playing their younger selves? This works most
beautifully when Rosalind Elias and Leah Horowitz perform the light operetta sort of tune "One More
Kiss." The elderly Heidi sings gloriously until the young Heidi appears behind her to belt it out even more
beautifully. Soon their voices are intertwined and competing and surging together as the memory of how
she could sing in her younger days spurs Heidi on to one last marvelous note. It's truly touching on somany levels.
Jan Maxwell scores brilliantly as Phyllis, nobody's fool even though she's playing the fool for her
successful husband. She's more sympathetic than the self-deluded Sally and also has the best lines;Maxwell makes the most of them. She's matched nicely by Raines every step of the way. Burstein is goodas Buddy, though not in his big solo number that opens the second act, "The Right Girl." He's very goodin the dramatic scenes and the other numbers, but here he just didn't quite hold the stage. (I cruelly keptwondering if Norbert Leo Butz might step in when Burstein moves on.) Bernadette Peters is a pro, ofcourse, but her voice sounded a bit exhausted now that it was a few nights after the exhausting presspreviews. But no one could fault her skills as an actor. At the end, this bravely low-key show has a
stunner of a scene where Peters and Burstein are just onstage alone, saying nothing as she sees her last
dream fade away. No dialogue, no song and yet the audience was gripped. So in short a three starperformance this night of a four star musical -- divide the difference and let's call it a 3 1/2 star night. Butsomeday....
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FOLLIES *** 1/2 out of ****
MARQUIS THEATRE
This is the best-acted, best-sung production of the
Stephen Sondheim musical Follies I've seen and yet it's
still not the Follies of my dreams. It's an elaborate,
wildly expensive show to mount when you follow thevision of that fabled 1971 edition that was housed in theWinter Garden where Mamma Mia! now holds court.
Follies is so daunting in its size that the show is much
more popular as a staple of all-star concerts. And nowonder -- the score is filled with one terrific Sondheimnumber after another. That's not the only reason Folliesworks so well in that context. At heart, it's a very quiet,
intimate, heartbreaker of a show and it should be seen in close-up both psychologically and literally. Butall those showgirls and feathers and costumes cost a lot of money, so here is Follies in a space perfect for
a spectacle like Showboat .
I can't stop imagining this cast in a stripped down production where you don't have a three-tieredmassive set, where you don't have ghosts wandering around all over the place but (mostly) imagine themand where we can savor the pros in an atmosphere like the casual reunion we're supposed to witness.Instead the show's atmosphere is rather formal and grand, in the style of the follies of old. Those follieswent out of style because they lacked any emotional oomph; some day Follies will learn the same lesson.
(I bet the Chocolate Factory in London does it right some day.)
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This show is all about shattered dreams so I suppose it's appropriate for me to cling onto the fantasy of a
small, stripped-down Follies , just like one-time showgirl Sally (Bernadette Peters) holds onto the dream
of running off with the handsome and successful Ben when Ben isn't remotely interested in anythingmore than a quickie.
Sally's illusions will be shattered at a 1971 reunion party of the Wiseman troupe, the performers who
starred in a Ziegfeld Follies-style annual spectacle between the wars. Act One is truly astonishing as thetroupers gather around and inevitably break out some of their classic routines. What a challenge forSondheim. Not only does he have to write songs in a bygone style, he needs to make us to believe these
are classics and yet have them familiar enough to let us buy these performances are old friends in a way
for everyone involved. Needless to say, he succeeds.
The nostalgia piles on in fascinating ways: we get the artificial nostalgia of hearing brand-new songs
presented as oldies but goodies and we get the genuine nostalgia of seeing veterans of a certain age enjoyyet another (and perhaps one last) chance to strut their stuff on stage, bringing with them all the historyof their long love affair with the biz. That's achieved effortlessly with a trio of tunes. Susan Watson and
Don Correia have great fun with the novelty number "Rain On The Roof." Mary Beth Piele lands "Ah,
Paris!" And then Jane Houdyshell (who wins over the crowd every moment she's on the stage with
practiced ease) knocks it out of the park with "Broadway Baby."
In between those "performances" of old we learn of the tangled relationship between Sally and Ben (a
very good Ron Raines) and the miserable unhappiness of their respective spouses Buddy (DannyBurstein) and Phyllis (an excellent Jan Maxwell). Then it's topped by an even better show-stopper whenTerri White leads the whole gang in the sensational "Who's That Woman." It's so marvelous a scatterednumber of people in the audience bolted for the exits, assuming they'd just seen the act one finale. Nope,that song is followed by Elaine Paige embodying "I'm Still Here" (she triumphs by letting that song sellitself). Even that's not the end of the act, since as I said Follies truly yearns to be a gentle show. So after
those two crowd-pleasers, it comes to a poignant end with the duet "Too Many Mornings" and Buddylooking on from the wings as his wife Sally and Ben indulge in a kiss.
What a first act, filled with so many performers you want to see each and every one of these actors in
their own show, soon. You could go home happy. (Indeed, I think one of the greatest nights of theaterimaginable would be seeing the first act of Follies , followed by the first act of Into The Woods and then
the first act of Sunday In The Park With George . Hey, a fella can dream, can't he?)
Act Two explodes all the fantasies indulged in by those antiquated musical revues. Instead of oldvaudeville numbers, we get new vaudeville numbers that use the old forms to tell complex, wrenchingtales of broken hearts. Intellectually, I understand it. But it's rather static in a way because most of the
songs tell us what we already learned in Act One, albeit with a little more self-awareness. But what
songs! "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow," "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Blues," "The Story Of Lucyand Jessie," "Live, Laugh, Love" and of course "Losing My Mind" are razzle-dazzlers, even if emotionallywe're mostly spinning our wheels until Ben finally admits he's desperately unhappy at the finale and
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reaches out for Phyllis one more time.
So yes the production may be so top-heavy (as Sondheim demands) and so grand in the follies style that
it's always fighting an uphill battle for the intimacy the story demands. The design is exactly what
Sondheim describes but it did feel like a redux of the Roundabout revival a decade ago. The draping of
grey curtains was probably the only way to make the modern Marquis feel decrepit, but the general feel
was more haunted house (in a hokey way) than faded glory.
But when a musical has this many great songs and this many great performers, it's hard to go wrong. Did
I mention much of the cast is mirrored by actors playing their younger selves? This works most
beautifully when Rosalind Elias and Leah Horowitz perform the light operetta sort of tune "One More
Kiss." The elderly Heidi sings gloriously until the young Heidi appears behind her to belt it out even more
beautifully. Soon their voices are intertwined and competing and surging together as the memory of how
she could sing in her younger days spurs Heidi on to one last marvelous note. It's truly touching on somany levels.
Jan Maxwell scores brilliantly as Phyllis, nobody's fool even though she's playing the fool for her
successful husband. She's more sympathetic than the self-deluded Sally and also has the best lines;Maxwell makes the most of them. She's matched nicely by Raines every step of the way. Burstein is goodas Buddy, though not in his big solo number that opens the second act, "The Right Girl." He's very goodin the dramatic scenes and the other numbers, but here he just didn't quite hold the stage. (I cruelly keptwondering if Norbert Leo Butz might step in when Burstein moves on.) Bernadette Peters is a pro, ofcourse, but her voice sounded a bit exhausted now that it was a few nights after the exhausting presspreviews. But no one could fault her skills as an actor. At the end, this bravely low-key show has a
stunner of a scene where Peters and Burstein are just onstage alone, saying nothing as she sees her last
dream fade away. No dialogue, no song and yet the audience was gripped. So in short a three starperformance this night of a four star musical -- divide the difference and let's call it a 3 1/2 star night. Butsomeday....
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