Talk:Follies
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[edit] 18Jan06 revision
Added section breaks, list of musical numbers, added some info in the synopsis, and a little bit of adjustment here and there for readability and style. --Urbane legend 12:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pastiche
Maybe it would be good to say what all the songs are a pastiche of? 00:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Song List? Which version?
What version of the show is the song list from? It lists one of the songs added for the eighties London revival ("Ah But Underneath") but not another ("Country House"). I think it would be nice to have a table showing the additions and deletions in the score in the various revivals--but I don't know enough to make one! Dybryd 23:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not too sure what all the changes were for the 87 version either, but the list as given apart from "Ah But Underneath" would appear to be the original. So I've just added the original number "The Story Of Lucy And Jessie" that it replaced, with a brief note. In the two productions I've seen (London 2002, and Northampton 2006 they went back to the original book with Lucy And Jessie as Phyllis's big number) Hope that helps Skekayuk 22:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- The 2007 City Center Encores program lists "Bolero d'Amour", a dance break, following "The Road You Didn't Take". I don't know the show well enough to know if this was an old cut or a new interpolation.Stagehand 00:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Revisions to the show
I had always understood that Goldman did not revisit the book until Cameron Mackintosh came to him and Sondheim about reviving the show in the mid-1980s, and that Mackintosh suggested he look at the book again. That production, which I saw in London in 1988, took such a different tack from the original (which I did not see, alas, being about 14 or 15 at the time) that many people were rather baffled at it. (I for one thought the idea of having the current versions of the leads interact with their younger selves was not a good one.)
I also wonder if the show is not only about contradictions but is itself a contradiction, at least in its production history. I gather that the original production was so jaw-dropping, so amazing and wonderful, that no production after can come close and is therefore doomed to failure in the minds of some, just like the characters seem to be, and just as the plot goes--the past is always better than the present. Then again, the OC recording was so butchered (contradicting the iconic status of the production itself) that succeeding producers may have felt they could do what they wished with the show. I dunno...it's a fascinating creature, Follies, and if it may not equal Candide in the complexity of its existence, it probably comes close. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 14:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
