Follies
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 17, 2000
Closed Jun 25, 2000
Opened May 17, 2000
Closed Jun 25, 2000
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The final show of East West Players' season is the Broadway musical Follies, book by James Goldman and music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. They were once "Follies" girls, the most beautiful and dreamed about musical entertainment stars that defined popular culture between the two World Wars. This story is about what has happened to these women since their shining moment and to the American dreams they symbolized for a generation. The action of the show takes place at their faded theater, now scheduled for demolition, when a group of Follies girls reunite for a party thirty years after the theater closed its doors.
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East West Players, the oldest established Asian Pacific American theater company in the U.S., has enjoyed great success with the work of Stephen Sondheim in the past, including critically acclaimed productions of Pacific Overtures, Company, Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd. But Follies is not one of the company's better efforts.
To begin with, Sondheim's radiant score for the show is undermined by James Goldman's woefully lackluster book. In the present production, the esteemed composer/lyricist is further done in by an ensemble that rarely rises above the level of community theater performance. And Tim Dang's turgid, often clumsy staging is no help at all. Fortunately, music director Sco[...]