FOLLIES

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies," a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars. It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were showgirls in the Follies. Both couples are deeply unhappy with their marriages. Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was years ago; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, sometimes accompanied by the ghosts of their former selves.

Cast List
(Names in red = Curtain Call debut.)

Sally Durant Plummer………………Tracy Marble

Phyllis Rogers Stone………....…………Gail Yudain

Benjamin Stone………………………Andrew George

Buddy Plummer…………......………Duane Lanham

Carlotta Campion………………………Marilyn Olsen

Roscoe……….............……….Christopher Beaurline

Hattie Walker…………………………Lynne Colatrella

Stella Deems…………………………….Betty McCready

Heidi Schiller…....………………………Carolyn Paulus

Solange LaFitte……....…………………..Elise Godfrey

Emily Whitman…….……………..Ellen Krinick Porto

Theodore Whitman…………………….William Squier

Dmitri Weismann………....………………James Hisey

Young Phyllis……………………………..Sofia Weinberg

Young Ben……….....…………………………Dan Travers

Young Sally……................……………….Claire Kenny

Young Buddy……............…………..Zach Stuckelman

Young Stella……………………………Elizabeth D’Aiuto

Young Heidi…………………………….Rebecca Stempel

Cartoon Margie…………....………………..Casey Keeler

Cartoon Sally……………............…………Leanne Janos

Major-Domo……………………………………….Bob Praid

Kevin…………………………..Bennett Leeds/Kevin Sell

Dee Dee West…………………………………Theresa LeBel

Ensemble………………….Carol Foley, Cathy Cavender,
Mary Fairbank, Dana Posner, Karen Chodash,
Seth Barkan, Tom Burke

 

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