Follies
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 4, 2011
Closed Nov 6, 2011
Opened Oct 4, 2011
Closed Nov 6, 2011
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Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin continues a decade-long exploration of the Sondheim canon at CST with this valentine to a bygone era of the American musical theater, performed by an ensemble of 40 actors and musicians. On the eve of a crumbling theater's demolition, the legendary "Weismann Follies" company reunites to relive their moments in the spotlight. The production's Broadway premiere garnered seven Tony Awards, including Best Score, and gave birth to the classic standards "Broadway Baby," "I'm Still Here" and "Losing My Mind."
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For Stephen Sondheim, love has long been a matter of obsession or manipulation expressed intellectually. But in his landmark 1971 musical
Follies, now being presented by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sondheim and book writer James Goldman deliver a group of characters with heartfelt emotions. Here, they come to near-perfect life thanks to a convincing cast and the loving hands of veteran director Gary Griffin and musical director Brad Haak.
Follies takes place in a crumbling Broadway theater in 1971 at the final reunion of the beautiful girls of the Weismann Follies, a once-popular series of long-ago lavish musical revues. Shadowed by the ghosts of their younger selves, the retired sho[...]