Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried
"Follies" is in a class of its own. It is safe to say that no Broadway musical has ever attempted its grandeur of vision, the size of its presence. Th...
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Critical Essay by T. E. Kalem
The frontier of the American musical theater is wherever Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim are. Last season, the producer-director and composer-lyricist collaborated on...
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Critical Essay by Henry Hewes
The most important musical of the Broadway season is Follies, concocted by some of the collaborators who made Company the best musical of the last two seasons. The new w...
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Critical Essay by Arlene Croce
Stephen Sondheim's lyrics for the show Follies reach their acme of wit in the very first song, in which he rhymes "celestial" with "the best...
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Critical Essay by John Rockwell
Sondheim's verbal felicity has remained with him throughout his career. He has that gift for clever rhymes that has distinguished lyricists since W. S. Gilbert ...
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The story just won't die.
Joe Mercurio just emailed out copies of correspondence between him and the Fields campaign. The mid-March emails include .pdfs of the infamous flier, and the corresponden...
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THE ICEBERG Running time 84 minutes Written and Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy Starring Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz
The Iceberg (L’Iceberg) is a B...
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In the best of times, most members of Congress are to fiscal irresponsibility what alcoholics are to the bottle — unable to resist even though they know they should. So imagine how our leader...
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“There’s so much pressure to look a certain way in New York,” said Adrienne Zweil, a 34-year-old Upper West Sider who was standing in Union Square outside an elaborate marketing p...
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TREE OF SMOKEBy Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 614 pages, $27
Tree of Smoke will surely be hailed as a great novel of the Vietnam War, which it is—but more than that it...
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Time is running out to stop the "Freedom Tower" folly. The new, improved, super-duper security revisions to the design of the 1,776-foot-tall terrorist-target-practice tower at Ground Zero are due ...
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BEIJING, Jan 29 (Reuters) - As much of China blames severe
winter weather for the power crisis that has crippled the
nation this week, Beijing's policymakers are being forced to
face up to the fac...
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“Actors? Actors are cowards. Actors have no guts,” announces the actor at the start of Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play at the Classic Stage Company. In which case, may I welcome bac...
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Remind me again how "the terrorists win" if we don't build the real-estate folly that calls itself "Freedom Tower"? Oh, right: If we build it, Osama bin Laden will be sobbing in his cave over the s...
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Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried
Fields Follies
