FOLLIES is CLOSED, Y'all

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:34am

It's gonna be gone in like 24 hours. I mean, just think about that for a minute.



Updated On: 1/22/12 at 01:34 AM

[Idiot]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:57am

Perhaps this is the right place to confess.

FOLLIES bores me to death. Now, I've never seen it in the theatre, so I'll go when it comes out here to Los Angeles and maybe I'll have a revelation. I hope so. But even though I like several of the songs, I can never get through it in one listening.

Now I feel dirty. But lighter.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:58am

Idiot

[Idiot]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:02am

I know, right?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:04am

[bobbybaby85]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:10am

Oh no! Now Lauren Harding will never be on Broadway...

[My Oh My]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:22am

Closing, yes.....and OPENING in L.A., woohoo!!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 5:16am

Ah...thanks for the memories!

I really loved Follies. So glad to have caught it.

Treat her well, LA!

[Musical Director 109]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 5:46am

The only musical that I got to see TWICE in a twenty four hour period!!!!! Simply BRILLIANT in every way.So sad to see it leave;happy to have seen a first rate production of this show. LA is in for a great treat.

[phantomcrazy14]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 8:32am

Well, I'm mad about this. Last time we were in New York my parents said we would see it. And what do they say when we get ther? "I just don't feel like it anymore. Let's just sit and chat in your sisters apartment". I was mad then, and today I am mad again. But congrats to the whole production team and cast on a great show.

[AMH]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 9:40am

^ That would make me mad, too.

I'm sad that FOLLIES is closing, but I'm glad I got to see it a few times.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 10:46am

Every time I read this thread header, I picture Paul Deen's voice saying it.

Thanks a whole bunch for that, Jordy.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 10:49am

LOL. And when I wrote it, I had her in mind. Funny how that happens but it reminds me of this...

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 11:06am

The FOLLIES score is so varied that anyone who claims to be bored by it is either posing in a misguided attempt to be "cool", or hates musical theater entirely.

Absolutely a personal choice. But I see no reason to pretend it's an objective opinion.

If the "Idiot" hat is short for AMERICAN IDIOT, then maybe I understand. But I'll wager that even the Green Day guys find things to like in FOLLIES.

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:18pm

As much as I respect your opinion that is one of the stupidest things I have heard.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:26pm

I loved this version of Follies. But I have found other productions to be boring. Some even abysmal. There was a horrid production with Patty Duke a few years ago that was unbearable. Not even the brilliance of the material could come thru.

Updated On: 1/22/12 at 12:26 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:31pm

Patty Duke starring as Helen Keller as Sally Durant Plummer would be something worth seeing.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:37pm

She'd probably fall more often than Bernadette seems to.

G'bye, Follies.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:17pm

Of course, Paula Deen would pronounce it "FOWLIES," even if most Southerners in their right mind wouldn't.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:20pm

Patty Duke played Phyllis and was by all accounts pretty miscast. Vicki Carr played Sally, and I've heard was quite good.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:41pm

Well I did see it. Vicky Carr was fine in a very presentational way. But it was all horrid and best forgotten. Somewhere on that site there should be a clip of Duke messing up during Loveland and simply giving up and walking off the stage.

[nybearhugz]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:10pm

Great show! Glad I had a chance to see it!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:15pm

It took me 40 years to get over the closing of the original production. I hope to Stritch I get over this one sooner.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:15pm

I've seen many productions of FOLLIES and this was the only one that came close to capturing the brilliance of the original. I was glad that I had the opportunity to see this version.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:22pm

I too am very happy that I had the privilege of seeing the show twice. I wasn't alive for the original but from everything I've heard, this seems to be as close as it gets to emulating the magic of the 1971 production. I wish it a good run in LA and I wonder if there's any hope of a life after Los Angeles.