Follies In Concert
Follies In Concert (1986)
Highlights from the legendary 1985 concert performance presented by the New York Philharmonic of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical.
Starring Carol Burnett, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook
Directed by Michael Houldey
The 1971 Broadway musical “Follies” contains one of the great Sondheim score. However its original cast album was notoriously problematic and heavily truncated. With a view to recording a more complete version of the score, a staged concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, was performed and filmed on September 6 and 7, 1985. The concert starred Barbara Cook,, George Hearn, Mandy Patinkin and Lee Remick, and featured Carol Burnett, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Liliane Montevecchi and Elaine Stritch. Frank Rich, in his New York Times review, noted that 'As performed at Avery Fisher Hall, the score emerged as an original whole, in which the 'modern' music and mock vintage tunes constantly comment on each other, much as the script's action unfolds simultaneously in 1971 (the year of the reunion) and 1941 (the year the Follies disbanded).'

Runtime: 90 min.     Rating: 8.0     DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Documentary,Music
Keywords: musical,theater,theater concert
Cast
   Herself / Carlotta Campion
   Herself / Hattie Walker
   Herself / Sally Plummer
   Herself / Phyllis Stone
   Herself / Solange LaFitte
   Herself / Stella Deems
   Herself / Young Sally
   Herself / Emily Whitman
   Himself / Theodore Whitman
   Dimitri Weismann
   Himself / Benjamin Stone
   Himself / Young Ben
   Herself / Young Heidi
   Himself / Buddy Plummer
   Herself / Young Phyllis
   Himself / Roscoe
   Himself / Young Buddy
   Herself / Heidi Schiller
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   Chorus
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