![]() These four interact with their younger selves in crisp scenes and songs. Sally was in love with Ben (still is) but she married Buddy, who is a serial philanderer, as is Ben and also Phyllis. At this 1970s reunion (the theatre is soon to be torn down) the focus is on two couples whose marriages have gone very stale: Sally and Buddy and Phyllis and Ben. This new production goes back to Stephen Sondheim's original vision: a single extended act and a character development study (wow – in a musical?) rather than a plot-driven drama.Ī crumbling brick wall on a revolving stage creates the minimalist set, with a fire escape replacing the grand staircase down which the chorus girls would have paraded in the heyday of the Ziegfeld-style Follies decades earlier. I saw it in London in 1987 – twice – with Dolores Gray and then Eartha Kitt singing the show's 'anthem' 'I'm Still Here'. ![]() This was the latest West End show to come to a movie theater near me last night.
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