Home viewers will get a second chance to enjoy Chichester Festival Theatre’s sold-out concert Celebrating Sondheim, an encore screening marking Stephen Sondheim’s 91st birthday on 22 March 2021. Hosted by the popular venue’s artistic director Daniel Evans, the star-studded celebration of the music of the legendary composer featured Evans’ co-star for the London and Broadway […]
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CD Review: Follies – National Theatre 2018 Cast
FOLLIES – National Theatre 2018 Cast (Warner Classics – 093624900955) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sondheim’s Follies is one of those musicals that started its rocky road to becoming an iconic piece of theatre in 1971. I remember being in London at the time and there was a record shop in Dean […]
Follies – National Theatre
Follies continues at the National Theatre (Olivier), London until 3 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ We’ve waited long enough, 30 years unless you count the limited-run version at the Royal Festival Hall in August 2002, for a full-scale revival of one of Stephen Sondheim’s finest creations and now we’ve got […]
Follies at the National Theatre – Philip Quast joins Imelda Staunton and Janie Dee
National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris has confirmed details of next year’s much-anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Broadway musical Follies, Starring the multi-award winning duo of Imelda Staunton and Janie Dee, the show will play the Olivier Theatre at a date which has yet to be confirmed. Imelda Staunton plays Sally Durant Plummer, Janie Dee […]
Sweeney Todd at London Coliseum – full cast revealed
Due to unprecedented public demand, an extra performance has been scheduled on Sunday 5 April at 3pm for Lonny Price’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller at the London Coliseum. Tickets for the 5 April performance, including 300 seats at £10 each, will go on sale today (3 March […]
