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Follies (2011 Broadway revival cast)

Follies

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Taking place at a reunion of performers who had appeared in various editions of the Weismann Follies (a fictitious counterpart of the Ziegfeld revue), the musical dealt with the reality of life as contrasted with the unreality of the theatre, a theme it explored principally through the lives of two couples, the upper-class, unhappy Phyllis and Ben Stone (Alexis Smith and John McMartin) and the middle-class, unhappy S…

Opened
1971
Performances
522
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Stephen SondheimLyrics: Stephen SondheimBook: James Goldman

Productions3 on Broadway

1971 Winter Garden Theatre Original. April 4, 1971 · Harold Prince & Michael Bennett 522 performances
2001 Belasco Theatre Revival. April 5, 2001 · Matthew Warchus 117 performances
2011 Marquis Theatre Revival. September 12, 2011 · Eric Schaeffer 152 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Follies matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature47 passages

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… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p26

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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p44

the 1970s institutionalized the concept musical as a viable alternative to the traditional book musical (Stephen Sondheim’s Company , Follies , and Pacific Overtures ) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p3

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. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p533

“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… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p722

The Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 had Leon Errol, dancer Ann Pennington, and Frank Tinney in the cast and played for 96 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p26

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