Marquis, New YorkWith its themes of youthful callousness, middle-aged regrets and vital emotions pumping beneath crusty surfaces, all mixed together in a tangy marinade of nostalgia and clear-eyed cynicism, the 1971 musical Follies is in many ways the most archetypal of Stephen Sondheim's shows. You can even catch ghosts of other Sondheim musicals in some songs: I always hear wisps of Last Midnight from Into the Wood…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM on September 6, 2017