After five years of preparation, Carlin America, in partnership with Hal Leonard Corporation, will
publish the first-ever complete and definitive "Author's Edition" of
the classic Stephen Sondheim musical Follies in a song selection
folio that includes all 33 Follies songs, a foreword and commentary
by the author, and, for this collection, Sondheim's personal
revisions of his original piano/vocal arrangements.
Since its
1971 Broadway World Premiere (which earned seven Tony Awards -
including "Best Music and Lyrics" for Mr. Sondheim - and the New York
Drama Critics' Award for Best Musical of that year),
Follies
continues to be recognized as among the most important and influential
landmarks in musical theater history. The new publication will mark
the first occasion all the
Follies songs and cut-outs from the
original, major revival and the 1987 London productions are combined in
a single comprehensive volume.
Sondheim, in his foreword, recalls that when the publication was
suggested, ""I was delighted, mostly because of the opportunity to share
with musical theater enthusiasts the songs that never got on to the
stage before they disappeared forever into the past (the enthusiasts as
well as the songs, that is.)""
A crumbling theatre on the brink of demolishment--once the site of the glamorous
Weismann Follies--is the setting of
Follies. In the show, two couples--both comprised of former Weismann showgirls and their one-time stage door Johnnies--are confronted with the ghosts of the past. The show, which also features a book by James Goldman, originally starred Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, John McMcMartin and Gene Nelson. It opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 4th, 1971 to run for 522 performances.
In announcing the long-awaited
publication of the
Follies Author's Edition folio, Bob Golden,
Editorial Supervisor and Carlin America's Vice President of Marketing
stated, "This collection is the result of an extraordinary and
dedicated collaboration between two music publishing giants and
Stephen Sondheim, whose indelible contributions to the musical theater
continue to be unparalleled and immeasurable. It is a proud privilege
for all of us to make available, for the first time since this classic
score was written, every
Follies song in a complete, distinguished
and authoritative volume that finally and faithfully represents both
the author's original and subsequently current visions of the work."
The folio,
titled
The Complete Follies Collection, [HL00313306, ISBN
1-42340-192-1] retails for $22.95 and is available at music and
bookstores nationwide or through Music Dispatch (
www.musicdispatch.com, 1-800-637-2852). A complete song list follows:
1971 Original Broadway Production:
"Ah, Paris!"
"Beautiful Girls"
"Broadway Baby"
"Buddy's Blues"
"Could I Leave You?"
"Don't Look at Me"
"I'm Still Here"
"In Buddy'e Eyes"
"Live, Laugh, Love"
"Losing My Mind"
"Loveland"
"One More Kiss"
"Rain on the Roof"
"The Right Girl"
"The Road You Didn't Take"
"The Story of Lucy and Jessie"
"Too Many Mornings"
"Waiting for the Girls Upstairs"
"Who's That Woman?"
"You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through"
1987 London Production:
"Ah, But Underneath"
"Country House"
"Loveland"
"Make the Most of Your Music"
The
Follies Notebook - Cut Songs:
"All Things Bright and Beautiful"
"Bring on the Girls"
"Can That Boy Foxtrot"
"It Wasn't Meant to Happen"
"Little White House/Who Could Be Blue?"
"Pleasant Little Kingdom"
"That Old Piano Roll"
"Uptown/Downtown"
"The World's Full of Girls"
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