#26
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:36pm
PalJoey, if you want to give me a heart attack, you are doing a great job.
Tick Tock
"Follies in Concert" Comments — Page 2
#27
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:40pm
That's why the next revival should recreate the original staging and design. I know it will never happen but it's nice to dream.
#28
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:41pm
Didja watch it?
Oops--fixed the link--it's on Page 1. Here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhQeVQ6677A
Oops--fixed the link--it's on Page 1. Here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhQeVQ6677A
Updated On: 4/27/08 at 10:41 PM
#29
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:42pm
BigFatBlonde said about Follies in Concert, "My wish is that they had issued the concert recording dialogue and all."
I was there and there was very little dialogue. VERY little.
I was there and there was very little dialogue. VERY little.
#30
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:46pm
If time travel ever comes to fruition I'm going to Follies in 1971!
#31
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:48pm
After seeing the London version of Who's That Woman (somewhere on the internet) it looked nice, but seeing that lower quality video was INCREDIBLE. I can't even imagine what that number must have looked like live.
Tick Tock
#32
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:48pm
Well that YouTube link is a little BroadwayWorld time machine.
#34
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:00pm
BNN--I was 15. It was the best thing ever. Better than the Wizard of Oz, better than Disneyland, better than losing my virginity.
And nothing has ever been that good since. Not even A Chorus Line. Not even Dreamgirls. Not even Sunday in the Park with George.
And Who's That Woman was the climax of it's perfection--that's where the writing and the staging and the sets and the costumes and the performers all came together. After that number, there were great songs and great performances, but the book was, well, what it was.
But nothing has ever been that good since.
And nothing has ever been that good since. Not even A Chorus Line. Not even Dreamgirls. Not even Sunday in the Park with George.
And Who's That Woman was the climax of it's perfection--that's where the writing and the staging and the sets and the costumes and the performers all came together. After that number, there were great songs and great performances, but the book was, well, what it was.
But nothing has ever been that good since.
#35
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:18pm
PalJoey, do you think that it NEEDED Bennett's actual presence to work or do you think that if Bennett's choreography were to be re-staged to a T that we could see that kind of lush, brilliant magic again?
Some of us were not there to see this, so all we have is hope... and your fabulous videos like this and FOLLIES miniature.
Some of us were not there to see this, so all we have is hope... and your fabulous videos like this and FOLLIES miniature.
"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"
#36
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:37pm
It's restaged to a T in A Chorus Line. What's missing is Michael.
#37
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:37pm
That video truly made my night. I just finished reading Everything Was Possible and to be able to experience only a fraction of what is described in the book and those who saw the original production was magical.
"I'm afraid that the children that the two of you would spawn would come out in costume, off book and belting Merman."
#38
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:51pm
Good point.
Oh well, even FOLLIES lite is better than most.
Oh well, even FOLLIES lite is better than most.
"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"
#39
You can hear the audience desperately trying (and failing) to ratchet up the evening into a spectacular event, along the lines of Garland at Carnegie Hall or the Sondheim Tribute. But, except for isolated moments like Barbara Cook, it was a disappointing evening.
Lola Delaney
In A Midwestern City
Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:52pm
You can hear the audience desperately trying (and failing) to ratchet up the evening into a spectacular event, along the lines of Garland at Carnegie Hall or the Sondheim Tribute. But, except for isolated moments like Barbara Cook, it was a disappointing evening.
Lola Delaney
In A Midwestern City
Updated On: 4/28/08 at 11:52 PM
#40
Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:04am
You can only wish you had been there.
Now begone, Hunter--before somebody drops a house on you too!
Now begone, Hunter--before somebody drops a house on you too!
Updated On: 4/28/08 at 12:04 AM
#41
Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:52am
Thank you PalJoey for posting! How lucky you were to have seen it live back in the 1970's!
#42
Posted: 4/28/08 at 3:26am
I'm *finally* reading Everything Was Possible and loving it. It's making me even more obsessive with all things Follies.
Thank you for the video PalJoey!
Thank you for the video PalJoey!
#43
Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:24am
I just uploaded the "Follies in Miniature" to YouSendIt again. PM me if you want the link.
#44
Laura will make a great Phyllis or Sally someday.
Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:41am
Laura will make a great Phyllis or Sally someday.
Updated On: 7/9/08 at 11:41 AM
#45
Posted: 4/29/08 at 12:20pm
And check out Mary McCarty's little shuffle-off-to-Buffalo salute as she leaves the stage for the dance break--and then watch as she comes back in at the end and takes the focus back from the women and the ghosts!
#46
Posted: 4/29/08 at 12:27pm
Pal Joey's mention of original Follies production reminds me that night after I saw the OBC, I went to a nightclub on the East Side called Mary Mary. It was operated by Mary McCarty and she met people at the door. The entertainment that nigth was, among other things, Yvonne DeCarlo who, of course, sang "I'm Still Here." If I remember correctly, Dorothy Collins' husband, Ron Holgate, also did a number. Perhaps because I had mentioned to Mary McCarty when she greeted us that she had been one of the stars of the first show I ever saw on Broadway, Miss liberty, she sang "Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun."
#47
Posted: 4/29/08 at 4:26pm
Wow. I was only 15 but I remember KNOWING that Mary McCarty had a club and wishing I could go.
Did you look at the YouTube link, Tom?
Did you look at the YouTube link, Tom?
#49
Posted: 4/29/08 at 5:02pm
Yes, I looked at the YouTube line, Joey.
In thinking back about the Follies in Concert. Barbara Cook was about the only performer that I didn't like. Don't get me wrong, I love Barbara Cook, always have, but, since NO ONE could ever top Dorothy Collins as Sally, Cook just didn't measure up to Collins. Nevertheless, it was one of the most exciting evening in a theatre that I've spent....well worth pushing the re-dial button on my phone for over 3 hours on the day that tickets went on sale!
In thinking back about the Follies in Concert. Barbara Cook was about the only performer that I didn't like. Don't get me wrong, I love Barbara Cook, always have, but, since NO ONE could ever top Dorothy Collins as Sally, Cook just didn't measure up to Collins. Nevertheless, it was one of the most exciting evening in a theatre that I've spent....well worth pushing the re-dial button on my phone for over 3 hours on the day that tickets went on sale!
#50
Posted: 4/29/08 at 5:56pm
I am not a fan of Patinkin, who I understand stopped Buddy's Blues after screwing up and had to restart.
I enjoy the live recording however. Love Cook, Remick, Hearn, Stritch, Burnett, Newman. I think the audience makes it - they go nuts during the overture and it is thrilling.
The only production of this I saw was the Roundabout revival, and even though it is reviled by most, I loved it. Even a bad Follies is a good Follies.
I enjoy the live recording however. Love Cook, Remick, Hearn, Stritch, Burnett, Newman. I think the audience makes it - they go nuts during the overture and it is thrilling.
The only production of this I saw was the Roundabout revival, and even though it is reviled by most, I loved it. Even a bad Follies is a good Follies.
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