FOLLIES is CLOSED, Y'all

[Jordan Catalano]

FOLLIES is CLOSED, Y'all#1

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #2

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #2

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

Idiot

[Idiot]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #3

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

I know, right?

[Jordan Catalano]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #4

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

[bobbybaby85]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #5

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

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

[My Oh My]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #6

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

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

Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.

[dramamama611]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #7

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!

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[Musical Director 109]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #8

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #9

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #10

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.

"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."

[best12bars]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #11

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.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Jordan Catalano]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #12

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #13

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #14

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #15

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.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

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

[Jordan Catalano]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #16

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #17

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

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

G'bye, Follies.

Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$

[best12bars]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #18

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.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[AC126748]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #19

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.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[DAME]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #20

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.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[nybearhugz]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #21

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

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

[PalJoey]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #22

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]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #23

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.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[broadwaydevil]

FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all #24

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.

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.