FOLLIES recording I'd like to hear... — Page 3

I was 15 when I discoverd FOLLIES.. I was instantly OBSESSED.

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I would LOVE to have the latest Broadway Revival of "Follies" on recording......Was that in 2001?

When I was 15 I wanted to be Alexis Smith.

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It was not just her beauty--it was also her bitchery I admired. I wanted to be in a really bad relationship so I could demand of my lover:

"WHEN did you love me last? Was it ten years ago...or NEVER? Do you ever contemplate divorce? Or suicide? Why don't you play around...or DO you? Have you cried much lately? Does one more day with me seem insupportable? Or are you DEAD?"

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"Have you ever played the drums?"

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Back to the original question:

It is probably that RCA has both complete concerts recorded, so theoretically it would be possible to issue a new CD set with all the dialogue. (After all, EMI re-issued Judy's Carnegie Hall concert with all the between songs banter.)

Whether it would make a listenable album that would appeal to people beyond the "show queens" is questionable.

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Actually, what I love about BroadwayWorld is that the teenagers (and older people) who are obsessed by whatever show obsesses them have a place to come to and find other like-minded obsessives.

All I wanted back then was to find ONE person who loved it as much as I did. I'm happy that today's kids have BroadwayWorld, even for Wicked. (Which I'm not obsessed with but have seen twice.)

The show will always be different. My point about 15-year-olds and Follies was not that ALL 15-year-old are into Follies but that many Follies-obsessives fell in love with the show at 15.

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Ooooh, right, jewishboy. That one always gets me.

"Hi...Girls...Ben...Sally"--and then that great Sondheim CHORD!

Louis Rosen is a very gifted composer. I bet he's a great teacher.

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Eh. You're pretty well-adjusted, at least as the denizens of BroadwayWorld go.

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I stumbled across that last month and enjoyed every word of it. Marti seems to have kept that youthful appearance to her judging from that popular picture of her and Kurt together at the Ann Arbor production.

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If it was not for the most famous actress appearing in the Follies, Star 'Mimi Hines', there
would be no Follies on Broadway this February! Mimi Hines is what the name Star was
written for in the Heavenly Sky's! Her 'Star' shines so bright, no one can come close to
ever touching the gift she has to share with everyone going to see her in the Follies on
Broadway! I can not think of any other reason to go see the Follies next month if it was
not for 'Mimi Hines'. She is and has been a talent beyond which any words can ever express.
For all you young kids in the business, if you want to learn how to sing, act, dance, you
might learn a bit of the pure magic and talent from Mimi Hines in the Follies. Anytime she
is performing anywhere on stage is a moment frozen in time. She has an amazing gift
that can bring out emotion from the heart that no one else can ever even come close
to ever being blessed to have. When reviews are written through the years of the greatest
actors of our times, the name 'MIMI HINES' shines and will always shine the brightest! I
and many other friends can not wait for opening night at the Follies on Broadway! When
they started calling actors Star's, it's true meaning was meant for the GREAT 'MIMI HINES'!
I wish the young whipper snapper actors coming up today would stop to really learn their craft
and their lines. So many today want it all like instant coffee. You do not earn your craft over night
nor in a year. You either have something to start with and then develope or you never will.
Just maybe if they did this we would once again have the start of some of the essence and
talent of the great 'MIMI HINES'. May her light always shine bright for many more years to come.

Pound for pound, I'd say Christine Baranski is probably more famous than Mimi Hines.

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