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Rereading 'Finishing the Hat' for this Reintoduction, I was taken aback and chagrined by how dismissive I had been about Nathan Lane's 2004 revision of The Frogs
Rereading 'Finishing the Hat' for this Reintoduction, I was taken aback and chagrined by how dismissive I had been about Nathan Lane's 2004 revision of The Frogs
That would be nice ... Obviously, I suppose if it really works extremely well at Encores! it might do what a lot of Encores! shows do — it might transfer, but that's not why we're doing it. We're doing it because we want to do it.More quotes »
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Roll It Back: The Latest Merrily Is Crisp and Polished, but Flawed
you hear in the current version of Merrily We Roll Along, the long-troubled and oft-reworked musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. Merrily, based on a 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about the slow demise 2/14/12 from New York Observer Read more »
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ENCORE! ENCORE!
years ago, , Stephen Sondheim’s musical that moves backwards in time from 1976 to 1957 and observes how a strong three-way friendship falls apart, crashed and burned in its Broadway debut. It lasted just 16 performances and broke up the longstanding partnership 2/14/12 from Theater News Online Read more »
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Random Dance company to explore the Age of Reason at Power Center
‘random.’ I never worry too much about definitions,” he said. “I let other people do that. I had a great conversation with Stephen Sondheim once, when I was working on a production of ‘A Little Night Music.’ I asked him what made him kind of unique, and he from MLive.com Read more »
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Original Merrily We Roll Along Cast Will Join Current City Center Encores! Cast Onstage Feb. 14
We Roll Along, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, is a musical about "friendship and the compromise of youthful ideals, based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The show moves backwards in from Playbill Read more »
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A SUPER SUPER BOWL PROMOTION
if you are a fan of Stephen Sondheim, you should check out the works of Frank Loesser. As with Sondheim, Loesser started out writing just the lyrics, then did both words and music in the 40s, 50s and 60s for shows such as Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella from All You Need is a Good Idea Read more »
