Getting Follies Right | Theater Review by Terry Teachout - WSJ.com
Of all the major postwar musicals, "Follies" may be the hardest to revive successfully. Not only was it one of the largest-scaled Broadway shows to come along prior to the Era of Falling Chandeliers, but the subject matter of "Follies," a caustic study of two middle-age marriages gone sour, is disturbing in a way likely to put off casual dinner-and-a-show theatergoers. Factor in Stephen Sondheim's magnificent score, …