Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 90mins Year: 1986 Release date: 18/03/2010 RRP: $ 24.99
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Follies in Concert provides a backstage look at a genuine Broadway event, the 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's 1971 Broadway musical Follies.
A star-studded cast, featuring principals Barbara Cook, Mandy Patinkin, Lee Remick, and George Hearn, supported by the likes of Carol and backed by the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center for a wildly enthusiastic audience.
At a reunion of the fictional musical revue The Weismann Follies, the long-retired players relive their careers through pastiches of past songwriters. They also remember their pasts and wonder whether they chose their spousesand the course of their lives correctly. Sondheim's musical brilliantly captures the memories and heartache of a long-lost era and the performers who embodied it.
The evolution of this unique, historic event is exclusively captured in this film, from the first rehearsaljust four days before the showto the last-second butterflies just before the curtain rose. This is a rare treasure for all fans of musical theater and includes the memorable songs "Losing My Mind" and "I'm Still Here".
