The run closed July 1, 1972
- Opened
- April 4, 1971
- Closed
- July 1, 1972
- Performances
- 522
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 51st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Follies 2 more that season
| 2001 | Belasco Theatre Revival · Matthew Warchus | 117 perf. |
| 2011 | Marquis Theatre Revival · Eric Schaeffer | 152 perf. |
Who was in it62 named
Yvonne de Carlo
Roy Barry
Steven Boockvor
Suzanne Briggs
Trudy Carson
Kathie Dalton
Harvey Evans
Victor Griffin
Fred Kelly
Dick Latessa
Sonja Levkova
John J Martin
Ursula Maschmeyer
Michael Misita
Joseph Nelson
Ralph Nelson
Rita O Connor
Julie Pars
Linda Perkins
Suzanne Rogers
Marcie Stringer
Margot Travers
Jayne Turner
Kenneth Urmston
Peter Walker
Donald Weissmuller
Charles Welch
Camila Ashland
Alexandra Borrie
Jan Clayton
Susanna Clemm
Joel Craig
Patricia Garland
John Johann
Ted Lawrie
Marion Marlowe
Jennifer Nairn Smith
Christopher Nelson
Jacqueline Payne
Denise Pence
David Roman
Rita Rudner
Terry Saunders
Rosemary Shevlin
22 of these 62 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 40 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters13 roles recorded
Dorothy Collins Sally Durant Plummer
John McMartin Benjamin Stone
Alexis Smith Phyllis Rogers Stone
Gene Nelson Buddy Plummer
Marti Rolph Young Sally
Kurt Peterson Young Ben
Virginia Sandifur Young Phyllis
Harvey Evans Young Buddy
Yvonne De Carlo Carlotta Campion
Mary McCarty Stella Deems
Justine Johnston Heidi Schiller
Ethel Shutta Hattie Walker
Arnold Moss Dimitri Weismann
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince, Michael Bennett
- Choreographer
- Michael Bennett
- Producer
- Harold Prince
- Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The plot centers on a crumbling Broadway theater, now scheduled for demolition, previously home to a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies). The evening follows a reunion of the Weismann Girls who performed during the interwar period. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, often accompanied by the ghosts of their younger selves. The score offers a pastiche of 1920s and 1930s musical styles, evoking a nostalgic tone. The original Broadway production, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, with choreography by Bennett, opened April 4, 1971. The musical was nominated fo…
- he Follies of 1907, showman Florenz Ziegfeld inaugurated the most celebrated and durable series of annual revues in the history of the Broadway theatre. From 1907 to 1931, there were 21 such entertainments designated as Follies (actually, there should have been 22, but the 1926 edition, due to a legal hassle, was initi… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 26
- To take the American public’s mind off the grave news about World War I (the Lusitania had recently been torpedoed), Ziegfeld’s ninth annual edition of his Follies was the most extravagant and spectacular to date. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 44
- the 1970s institutionalized the concept musical as a viable alternative to the traditional book musical (Stephen Sondheim’s Company , Follies , and Pacific Overtures ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- Following The King and I she appeared on Broadway just once more, in the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (1971) when she was Dorothy Collins’s standby and played the role of Sally during Collins’s vacation. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 533
- “Vanityade” had been in the 1956 Follies (and as “Vanityades” would later surface in the 1960 Broadway revue Vintage ’60 ). “When Papa Would Waltz” had also been performed in the 1956 edition. “It’s Silk, I Feel It” and (as “Bop-a-Bye”) “Be Bop Lullaby” were from the 1955 Off-Broadway revue Once Over Lightly , and “Upp… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 722
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Follies at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.