FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

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FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:23pm

So I attended Follies last night and I have to say that I went into it with really high expectations but walked out thinking...that it was just alright! Of course Christine Baranski and Donna Murphy were amazing! Along with others that stood out..I will give a more detailed review later tonite!

Updated On: 2/12/07 at 07:23 PM

#2

re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:26pm

Follies is playing at City Center? I haven't heard a word about it!

#3

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:29pm

Sondheim's FOLLIES???? How did I miss it?

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#4

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:29pm

"The funny night of the evening was Victor Garber forgetting words to a song and turning to ask the conductor"

This is part of the show.

And why did you post the title in BIG CAPS LETTERS!!! if you thought it was just alright?

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#5

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:30pm

Very funny, Jose.

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#6

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:33pm

atlsuperstar, are you kidding? Do you read this board?

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:38pm

Did they have any good merch?

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#8

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 7:52pm

Please, people.

atlsuperstar is an obvious sock puppet

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#9

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 8:21pm

the coffee cup.

#10

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 8:41pm

It bothers me how people keep saying Victor Garber forgot his lyrics, HE DID NOT! I guess it just attests to the fact he convincingly performed the break-down.

Lucy wants to be classie, Jessie wants to be lassie...

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 8:47pm

did you stage door and ask Liza for her autograph or carol channing? Did you follow Donna Murphy to starbucks?

#12

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 8:52pm

Was Loretta Swit in the audience? Did she bring her pet pig?

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#13

re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/12/07 at 9:01pm

I hear the lift malfunctioned and JoAnne Worley didn't actually fly at the end of Act one, but had the nerve to wave her arms around and act like she was really in the air. I would've asked for a refund.

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Posted: 2/12/07 at 9:05pm

At ATC they claim that many people did. As a result, the show lost its profits.

Sad. Terribly sad.

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#15

re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:23am

I read were Mimi Hines stoppped the show with "Braodaway Baby" every performance I have failed to read any of the bad reviews so far. I wish they were not such limited runs it
seem's like I'm alway's away when they run, at least I can read
about them from the internet

Updated On: 2/13/07 at 12:23 AM

#16

re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:34am

And Yvonne Constant did a brilliant rendition of all the songs in French after the Saturday matinee.
Afterwards, Donna Murphy and Victoria Clark both performed their versions of "Losing My Mind" and the audience got to vote on who did it best. The results will be announced on national TV and the winner will be playing Mrs.Lynch in the upcoming Grease revival.

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

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re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:45am

Then someone took a picture and Donna Murphy stopped the show, and demanded that they start the show over again, from the first note of the overture!

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Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:50am

I heard that during the first act someone's cell phone rang, and Victoria Clark said, "Answer it already."

Shortly thereafter there was some mix-up involving a house microphone and corn.

Can anyone who was at these shows verify?

Thanks in advance.

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#19

re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:53am

And yes, they did keep the gay scene with Bobby...I mean Ben and Buddy. And since "Tick Tock" was cut from the current revival of Company, JoAnne Worley danced the number...yes, they kept the original Bennett choreography.

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#20

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Posted: 2/13/07 at 5:57am

I heard Donna Murphy had a wardrobe malfunction during The Story of Lucy and Jessie! How tragic.

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#21

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Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:15pm

Damn! I'm so sorry I missed it. I would have loved to see JoAnne Worley do the "Tick Tock" number with its original choreography.

Was she good?

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#22

re: FOLLIES AT CITY CENTER!

Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:23pm

She was decent, but not even close to as good as Charlotte D'Amboise was.

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#23

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Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:46pm

this is the best thread ever.

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#24

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Posted: 2/13/07 at 3:30pm

C is for Company, I disagree, to me it seemed like Donna McKechnie had taken over Worley, it was creepy. A performance only rivaled by Yvonne's French rendition of the Follies numbers. Watch out for these two come Tony time.

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#25

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Posted: 2/13/07 at 3:38pm

Tony Time is my FAVORITE choreographer! I love what he did in "It's A Grand Hotel Night for Singing"