Follies In Concert

1986 "Highlights from the legendary 1985 concert performance presented by the New York Philharmonic of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical."
Follies In Concert
8.1| 1h30m| NR| en| Documentary, Music
Storyline

The 1971 Broadway musical “Follies” contains one of the great Sondheim score. However its original cast album was notoriously problematic and heavily truncated. With a view to recording a more complete version of the score, a staged concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, was performed and filmed on September 6 and 7, 1985. The concert starred Barbara Cook,, George Hearn, Mandy Patinkin and Lee Remick, and featured Carol Burnett, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Liliane Montevecchi and Elaine Stritch. Frank Rich, in his New York Times review, noted that "As performed at Avery Fisher Hall, the score emerged as an original whole, in which the 'modern' music and mock vintage tunes constantly comment on each other, much as the script's action unfolds simultaneously in 1971 (the year of the reunion) and 1941 (the year the Follies disbanded)."

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  • Follies In Concert Cast
Carol Burnett as Herself / Carlotta Campion
Elaine Stritch as Herself / Hattie Walker
Barbara Cook as Herself / Sally Plummer
Lee Remick as Herself / Phyllis Stone
Liliane Montevecchi as Herself / Solange LaFitte
Phyllis Newman as Herself / Stella Deems
Liz Callaway as Herself / Young Sally
Betty Comden as Herself / Emily Whitman
Andre Gregory as Dimitri Weismann