Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.
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17 Facts About Follies
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Follies asked author and playwright James Goldman to join him as bookwriter for a new musical.
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Follies had agreed to work on The Girls Upstairs if Sondheim agreed to work on Company; Michael Bennett, the young choreographer of Company, was brought onto the project.
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Follies feigns a lack of interest; there is an underlying tension in their relationship.
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Follies is a salesman, in his early 50s, appealing and lively, whose smiles cover inner disappointment.
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Follies shakes loose from the memory and begins to dance with Ben, who is touched by the memory of the Sally he once cast aside.
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Follies accuses him of having affairs while he is on the road, and he admits he has a steady girlfriend, Margie, in another town, but always returns home.
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Follies tells Sally that he's done, but she is lost in a fantasy world and tells him that Ben has asked her to marry him.
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Follies then tells Ben that their marriage can't continue the way it has been.
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Follies thinks she's very neurotic, and she is very neurotic, so he said to me 'Congratulations.
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At its very start, ghosts of Follies showgirls stalk the stage, mythic giants in winged, feathered, black and white opulence.
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Follies had its pre-Broadway tryout at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, from February 20 through March 20,1971.
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Follies premiered on Broadway on April 4,1971, at the Winter Garden Theatre.
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Follies predicted that the show eventually would achieve recognition as a Broadway classic.
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Follies is a blend of both, and the new production is rounded out with production numbers celebrating love's simple hope for young lovers, its extravagant fantasies for Ziegfeld aficionados, and its fresh lesson for the graying principals.
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Follies was voted ninth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the UK's "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals".
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