Follies live at Kennedy Center (Revival Cast - Complete)
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2014
- The complete video of the 2011 Kennedy Center's revival of "Follies", a Stephen Sondheim musical.
Cast:
Sally Durant Plummer: Bernadette Peters
Phyllis Rogers Stone: Jan Maxwell
Buddy Plummer: Danny Burstein
Benjamin Stone: Ron Raines
Carlotta Campion: Elaine Paige
Hattie Walker: Linda Lavin
Solange LaFitte: Mary Beth Peil
Theodore Whitman: Don Correia
Stella Deems: Terri White
Heidi Schiller: Rosalind Elias
Dee Dee West: Colleen Fitzpatrick
Roscoe: Michael Hayes
Emily Whitman: Susan Watson
Sandra Crane: Florence Lacey
Dimitri Weismann: David Sabin
Max Deems: Frederick Strother
Young Buddy: Christian Delcroix
Young Sally: Lora Lee Gayer
Young Phyllis: Kirsten Scott
Young Ben: Nick Verina
I had loved the score of "Follies" ever since the show premiered in 1971; but I had never seen it in performance until I went to the Kennedy Center in 2011 to see this production. WHAT an experience! This videotape cannot begin to convey the electric excitement that filled the theater. I've never been so thankful in my life that I had opera glasses with me than when Linda Lavin sang "Broadway Baby". Her face was a theater in itself: a battered, been-around-the-block veteran crying out her joy in life and defiance of death. Magnificent! When the lights came up at intermission, the very attractive middle-aged lady sitting on my right tapped my arm and smiled. "You really seem to be into this", she said. "I like seeing other people enjoy things when I'm enjoying them too." We chatted for a few minutes, and I commented "I drove down here from York, Pennsylvania, just to see this." She laughed and said "I've got you beat. I flew in from Denver."
who even are the people in this comments section saying bernadette peters wasn't good in this production? her "losing my mind" completely shattered me and i am not ashamed to admit it.
I saw Bernadette perform “losing my mind” in concert shortly after being in Follies and I lost MY mind! It was phenomenal!
Was she not feeling well or maybe an off night? Too Many Mornings - not good and singing sharp throughout.
@@markandersen1 yawn
@@markandersen1 I saw her and I was not impressed. I remember praying that she'd get through her songs
Pat Fenaughty She is my absolute favorite but this was not the role for her, certainly not at the time she played it. Victoria Clark, who took over the role when the rest of the revival cast played in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson, was better suited for it and wonderful.
Jan Maxwell was truly incredible in this production. She is missed dearly.
i agree and her name is Jan
evans54 Thank you for the correction.
15:52 we respect a line flub that was so eloquently fixed with acting teamwork.
omg I hadn't even notice dit, it fits so well in the performance!
If you hadn't pointed it out, I probably wouldn't have noticed! That's the mark of consummate professionals, though I do wish I was in the front row to see the momentary look in her eyes as she navigated how she could save it!
I mean...did they really have to name both the leading men with 'B' names? 25 other options, and this isn't a musical based on pre-existing material...the more I think about that decision, the weirder I think it is...
Let’s not forget Jonathan Tuniick’s enormous, unlimited talents. How he makes those instruments give just the right character to this truly unique musical.
One of Sondheims great psychological examinations in musical form.
I was lucky enough to see this production on Broadway with this cast. I’m enjoying being able to revisit it here, so thank you for posting!
Because of the songs, I often come back to this Sondheim show as a favorite. Even the cast off songs are lovely. I wasn't able to see the original but was pleased to see this production was very close to it in production. Thin as it is in plot, it is overflowing in emotion and drama if played to its potential. Dark and depressing, bright and beautiful, a glory of manic human thoughts, hope, dreams, creativity, crashes and resolution.
Thanks Bruno! A treasure to watch.
such a great show; I was lucky enough to see it at both Kennedy and on Broadway... fantastic talent!
Damn this is fantastic. You see, most people never had the chance to see this
Thank you for posting it.
I agree! And also give much thanks!!
i will fight anyone that says bernadette wasnt good in this
You have to admit that Bernadette Peters is a talent.
Glenn Byrnes not really. Beautiful woman, though.
Obviously she can't sing anymore. That being said, as an actress she is totally Sally, neurotic as can be. The character is perfect, the voice not so much.
I must admit her "In Buddy's Eyes" is incredibly moving and vocally quite impressive.
@@Obaysch Are you still full of shit two years later?
@@kebirsabeth9935 I mean, of course she can't sing the same way she used to. But she can still sing.
I saw this three times, and Page did it three different ways, always knocking it out of the house. This is a great performance, detailed and with a flawless, varied build.
I saw this on Broadway twice and will forever kick myself for not seeing it a third time. I went to that damned play written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen instead! What a mistake that was, but I wanted to see Julie Kavner onstage. I did go see the underappreciated revivial of On a Clear Day that night though for the second time. It was a terrific christmas. I saw Hansel and Gretel and Daughter of the Regiment at the Met, as well as the World Premiere performance of The Enchanted Island, Follies twice and On a Clear Day twice. I took my niece to On a Clear Day, too. It was her first broadway show. Thank you so much for posting. Jan Maxwell should have won the Tony for this! She blew me away as Phyllis!
I love trips to New York. Spending every waking hour possible in a theatre, eating over priced sandwiches between shows then collapsing into bed, exhausted and totally inspired.
The On a Clear Day was worth seeing if only because of the UNFORGETTABLE Broadway debut of Jessie Mueller.
I saw this production at the Kennedy Center. I was young without much money so all I could afford was standing room in the back. What a great show it was. Maybe it wasn't perfection, but Follies was never a "perfect" show. Perfection was reached, however, when Bernadette sang "In Buddy's Eyes." Amazing memories I'll keep with me forever.
My school will be doing Follies so glad I can hopefully be apart of this beauty. ❤
i’m jealous!
Many thanks for posting, its a gift that keeps on giving!
Amazing. Thanks for posting.
Wonderful, brilliant show. What a gift Steven Sonheim was to us..theater lovers. Love his genius creations.
Thanks a lot for this. Love this musical...
One of only a few Sondheim's musicals I've never seen, though I know the songs better than anything else he's done. I always wondered about the staging of it. Many thanks!
thank you so much for posting this
it's the only one I've found of the whole thing
Never seen this in full only heard songs, excited to watch
Thanks for sharing! I was lucky to see this live. A truly great night in the theatre.
who killed the cat???
A Great help with our current rehearsals for our HOS production. Thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing I have been trying to find any and all musical productions with Bernadette Peters in them and have been able to find two, this will be the third so thank you!
Thank you so much for the upload!
My pleasure :)
Enjoyed this video! All the best!!
Thanks for posting this video. Love Sondheim. Appreciate the chance to see a full production.
Bless this upload
Follies, Company, and Gypsy or honestly the best Stephen Sondheim shows.
Sweeney todd also in my opinion
Sunday...
@@silver1788 okay, I do like Sunday In The Park With George, but the other shows just got me emotionally. Again, Sunday is a great show!
@@williamellis8304 yeah ok i think thats personal taste. How to choose between these Masterpieces anyway
Pacific Overtures? Assassins? Road Show? (Nah, just kidding about Road Show, but not about the others)
Elaine! Yes! You're still here!!
By the way, this is the Pre-Broadway cast so this is Regine playing Solange and singing Ah Paris instead of Mary Beth Peil who replaced her after the Kennedy Center engagement.
Enjoyed this video.
yes thank you for this, i didn't know how the story really went now i do.
Wow! What a cast!
:)) so happy this is here
I saw this version twice on Broadway. It was much better than you can tell from watching this, which is valuable as the only complete filming of "Follies" I know of, but doesn't do justice to the production. Theatricality and illusion are the essence of "Follies" and a hand-held unedited home camera just can't give you that feeling. Bernadette Peters is miscast in this, but she was better live than she comes across in this filming, where her performance is sometimes painful to watch. Incidentally, I also saw the original Broadway production and the Paper Mill Playhouse production about 15 years ago. I think the Paper Mill production was my favorite. Thank you, Bruno, for uploading this. Any "Follies" is better than none. . . .
+שרה פרידלנד בן ארזה I saw it too and now I won't bother watching this. I keep trying to recreate things to share with those who missed them, and it just can't be done.
Ms. Peters who is clearly a Broadway treasure was having serious vocal problems the night I saw the production on Broadway, which was unfortunate. I've seen her at her best in other roles. I felt bad for her, but it happens to all of us.
cONGRATULATIONS...GREAT JOB WELL DONE
I love this video
outstanding.
Fabulous this is how I want my life to be
The production of" Follies "at Toby's Dinner Theatre was off the charts. Wonderful cast, solid directing, costumes were out of this world and the acting superb. If you missed it, you missed a magnificent show!!
Jan Maxwell. Master class.
So right. Saw her onstage in 'Sound of Music', 'Chitty', and this. Do I feel lucky. What a pro!!
This is hands down the darkest, and bleakest of all Sondheim's shows, much darker and grimmer than Sweeney Todd or Assassins, because it has no real ending. Sweeney Todd and Assassins are dark, but they have a clear resolution. In Follies nothing is resolved, everything we've just seen is left hanging like a suspenseful musical sting that never dies out.
Literally haunts you for years and years and years.
Guess you missed "Passion" and "Sweeney Todd"!!!
@@1951michaelw I thought I explained why this is darker than either of those musicals. Let me say it again - THIS musical is darker than Sweeney Todd or Passion or Assassins because those shows have an ending with a clear resolution. Follies is darker because nothing is resolved and nothing changes, everything is left hanging where it is. Do you understand now?
wow...settle back and enjoy!
59:09
"I loved you ever since I was a little boy."
"And how many weeks ago was that?"
You're welcome, Carlotta.
Ok. When is the movie version?
... it's been coming ... for thirty-something years ...
If you search Follies, someone (I think FolliesFan1971) has gathered film clips from the original production and pieced together, along with stills, as much of the 1971 as he could. Quality is not great, but 45 years later you take what you can get. And I did get to see the original in June 1972.
Thank you so much! wonderful! Did HBO ever release a DVD? How luck you were to be there!
These costumes were better than when they moved to Broadway
Rosalind Elias....plus all those ppl !!!!!!
This was filmed on my birthday
I think Linda Lavin is playing Hattie in this one. Jayne Houdyshell took over on the Bway
You're right! Thanks!
Bruno Cavalcanti And thank God for Jayne Houdyshell. She stole the show.
Was this on pbs? Any way to get a copy?
Great production. Saw both DC and Broadway. Don Correia didn’t play Theodore Whitman until NYC.
Correction: Regine plays Solange LaFitte in this run, not Mary Beth Peil.
I gotta admit--I wish they'd find some way of incorporating Country House into the show.
Love that song!
I liked Bernadette’s portrayal. It is good
15:52 YOU MARRIED BEN, DIDN`T U? :D :D hahahahahah
GENIUS! Hahaha!
@@MarkvanBeelen Smooth recovery. You know they had a good laugh backstage after that.
And...Elaine Paige was no Yvonne De Carlo who was the epitome of "I'm Still Here!"
Whaaaaat was that unbelievable entrance?! Laurette Taylor, much?
This is a near perfect production of a problematic piece. Don't all of of Sondheim's musicals come with built in problems, much as I love them? I saw the original production both pre broadway in Boston and on Broadway. Now memory can play funny tricks, but Prince's realization had a mysterioso quality that probably can never be duplicated, much of it coming from casting performers with no stage legs. Those that had some sort of stage career behind them, well it was so long ago that it mattered little and the rest had been in the movies, very different from being on stage. That added a quality of can they even get through the material with any kind of poise and there were very different answers for different performers. Yvonne DiCarlo pretty much never got all the lyrics right at any one performance, Alexis Smith, Tony award be damned got though by sheer force of energy. Dorothy Collins was the only one really giving a reliable performance, years of experience honed on summer stock stages and she should have gotten the Tony. Here we have exactly the opposite situation, a cast with enough stage experience to light up Broadway without any electricity. Less of that cob webby feeling of being in a theater with ghosts all through it, but with principals able to make the 4 lead characters a touch sympathetic where in almost all other performances that doesn't happen for me. Bernadette Peters has the misfortune to play a role played to complete and utter perfection by one of the greatest singers ever to sing a Broadway type repertory, Ms. Barbara Cook. Were it not for her assumption in the Follies in Concert version, even minus much of the dialogue, Bernadette would be the Sally for the ages, so lets let her share it. She was sensational, one of her greatest Broadway roles. Jan Maxwell leaves every other Phyllis in the dust. Danny Burstein finally assumed the mantle of a star with this part, perfectly cast and Ron Raines shares honors with Follies in Concert's George Hearne, no mean feat since he and Cook were that casts standouts among a stageful of brilliant performers. Everyone in this cast gives lessons on how to make this show work, its briliantly directed as well. Thanks for posting because before this I only knew it from the excellent PS Classics recording. By the way, up until now I could never stand the show, hating all 4 central characters. As for the Royal Theater Production that showed in the movies and everyone raved about, in my opinion, it couldn't come close to this one for heart and soul. BRAVO!!!!!
I saw this in the original production. it had a mysterious quality, and the fact that the showgirls were so gorgeous and the old folks so dated was a good contrast between dreams and reality. The ending however came too fast to feel like it really wrapped things up. Now I know, when I see the show, to really pay attention to the very ending past Live Laugh Love. It does wrap things up, but it goes by fast.
Thank you for posting! So exciting. Was this before or after the Broadway run?
Before. It played here - the Kennedy Center - (with two significant casting differences in its original incarnation), and then Broadway, and then LA and other than Victoria Clark taking over from Bernadette Peters, I don't know of any other casting changes from NY to LA.
@@jddrew730 I believe at one point Carol Neblett took over from Rosalind Elias. Now they're both gone. RIP
It seems to me that Solange LaFitte is sung by Régine, not Mary Beth Peil.
This isn't one of my favorites but, for those who claim Bernadette Peters can't sing or isn't talented you must be tone deaf and can't claim to have a heart. Here is just one performance that shows how incredible she is...
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I am just guessing but she did cough a number of times on stage in this performance so perhaps she wasn't feeling well or her voice was overworked. She still made me cry with Losing my Mind, and In Buddy's Eyes.
Wouldn't champagne be the opposite of pretzels and beer?
It's nothing to do with opposites but to her preferences
Who's playing Solange? I'm pretty sure is not Mary Beth Peil
I'm right :D That's Regine as Solange
Here is this same capture with additional camera angles for better coverage.
ua-cam.com/video/Bwio_87Jdm0/v-deo.html
That’s Regine not Mary Beth Piel.
So glad I got to see this in LA at the Ahmanson four times, including the last show before they all flew to New York for the Tony's and closing night as well. Amazing, amazing, amazing in person--especially when combined with the huge orchestra. Thank God too I saw Victoria Clark instead of Bernadette Peters. Victoria was transcendent as Sally, and every time I have to listen to Bernadette croak her way through the scores on the cast album it makes me cringe. She was so miscast!
Thanks for uploading this!!
On vid, something "wrong" w this production...
Great show, terrible audio.
Oh dear! At 15.50 the actress playing Phyllis makes a rather embarrassing gaff- she confuses the names of her and Sally's husbands-, saying to Sally " You married Ben, didn't you?" She means Buddy, of course. Of all the names to get mixed up!- because the whole plot ( and it's not much of one, as we all know) is that Sally WISHES she had married Phyllis's husband, Ben. You can see Bernadette Peters thinking for a a few seconds- 'Uh oh, how do we get out of this?' before they sort of act their way out of the moment- "No, YOU married Ben!! Hahaha" etc- which is all you can do in those situations onstage.
Sorry Guys! Having seen both the 1971 FOLLIES and the 2011 revival, Bernadette Peters did not have the edge that Dorothy Collins had, and Jan Maxwell surpassed Alexis Smith.
Good lord that overture is being played at methamphetamine tempo...you can hear the pianist and saxes can barely keep up at a couple of points.
COULD YOU LIST THE CAST????
It's in the description
HOW ABOUT LISTING THE FULL CAST...
bruh chill
Not my favorite Sondheim, not by a long shot. A few really good moments, but overall a bit dull. And there were a few points that I felt like I was watching a local theater company performance. Set, costumes, lighting were great though.
The opening sequence is not good (in so many ways). Instead of bursting with energy, it relies entirely on the music (bad idea); but. there's no movement, no choreography - maybe they didn't have the original 1971 videos to work from--they should have! Peter's interpretation of Sally has no power or strength. What happened with that? Michael, you're right, Schaefer should've been slapped! I can't watch the rest.
Phillip Pacheco the first half was not what I expected. but the second half was much better
I swear.. if British audiences adopt the dreadful practice of clapping an actor just for appearing on stage.. I will write a serious letter of complaint .. erm to someone... It happened in 'Dreamgirls' when Amber Riley simply walked on stage.. PLEASE PLEASE not in England!!!
Sometimes i like it.. But i completely see what you mean
let people enjoy things lmfao
That’s hardly a new thing...and it’s definitely not a strictly “American” thing. Get over yourself and let people enjoy the show 🙄
Choreography is horrendous. Michael Bennett was god...This guy...not so much.
That's so naff. Clapping an actor when they first appear on stage. It should be about the character not coming to see the actor - it completely removes the audience from the drama
You're wrong. It's not naff. Applauding certain well-known actors when they first appear has been commonplace for decades. How long have you been on the Planet?
Moiturette
I imagine Jason is from the U.K. Because we don't applaud an actor just because they walk onto the stage. Because it is indeed very naff.
first what is NAFF? Not a word used in USA. what country is it from?
second you have used this comment before on other posts, it didnt fly there either, because -
third, ppl have been giving enterance applause for decades. DECADES. it is a PART of the live audience tradition, to show appreciation for a favorite star. Get over it. It's not going away.
Vers Boy Absolutely true and correct. By the way, naf, or naff, is not a real word. It's just a made-up slang word which is rarely used, anywhere.
***** Not true. It does happen in theaters, and for much longer than the 1980s. I can remember it happening in the early 1960s, when I was a child, in a production of Noel Coward's SAIL AWAY, in Sydney.
How I pity anyone who wasn't around to see the original 1971 production. Next to it, this is so crappy.
PATHETIC! this is just a 2nd rate, poor quality bootleg video shot from the CHEAP SEATS.
Were you expecting HD quality official version for free on UA-cam? If you're not buying tickets don't complain.
bruh it’s free & better then nothing.