Follies
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 1, 2003
Closed Jun 1, 2003
Opened Apr 1, 2003
Closed Jun 1, 2003
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Signature Theatre presents the musical Follies, featuring a 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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It seems only natural to view the Signature Theatre's Follies as an echo of last summer's internationally acclaimed Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center. Signature's artistic director Eric Schaeffer, who helmed that festival, had wanted to include the 1971 musical -- one of the few Sondheim shows he had yet to direct. Now that he has finally gotten a shot at Follies, Schaeffer has provided a glittering, re-imagined production of a piece that he has called "a haunting fable of broken dreams."
It's 30 years since World War II ended the 21-year run of the "Weismann Follies." That Ziegfeld-like impresario has invited his aging showgirls to a reunion at the theater which housed the Follies[...]