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Brisa’s Pieces: Up With Populism, Down With Pretension

by Brisa Trinchero on January 30, 2013

in Brisa's Pieces,Follies,Sunday In The Park With George

I attended the annual TEDxBroadway conference this week in New York City. It’s a gathering of industry insiders and theater fans who come together for one day to dream big about “The Best That Broadway Can Be.” One of the highlights was a great speech by Thomas Schumacher, who leads Disney Theatricals. He was feeling [...]

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Filichia Features: Merrily Does Roll Along

by Peter Filichia on November 30, 2012

in A Little Night Music,Anyone Can Whistle,Company,Filichia Features,Follies,Merrily We Roll Along,Pacific Overtures,Sweeney Todd

Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the composer-lyricist’s masterpiece. So MERRILY closed – after 16 performances. While word-of-mouth during [...]

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Filichia Features: Sondheim for Two

by Peter Filichia on October 5, 2012

in Anyone Can Whistle,Company,Filichia Features,Follies,Marry Me A Little,Saturday Night,West Side Story

As has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, MARRY ME A LITTLE starts with an overture. Or does it? Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Stephen Sondheim songs is a two-character musical. We’ll meet Him and Her, as they were solely named by Craig Lucas and [...]

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Filichia Features: You Just Might Like YOU’RE GONNA LOVE TOMORROW

by Peter Filichia on September 28, 2012

in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum,Anyone Can Whistle,Company,Filichia Features,Follies,Merrily We Roll Along,Pacific Overtures,Putting It Together (1999 Broadway Version),Saturday Night,The Frogs,The Music Man,You're Gonna Love Tomorrow

You’ve produced every one of the musicals that Stephen Sondheim has written. As a result, you’ve educated your audiences to know what to expect from the 20th century’s greatest musical theater composer-lyricist: the unexpected. YOU’RE GONNA LOVE TOMORROW is a good piece for you to do if theaters in neighboring towns have recently done SIDE [...]

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Freddie and Myrna Gershon Fund Grant Program in Honor of Stephen Sondheim

by JasonC on September 28, 2010

in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum,A Little Night Music,Anyone Can Whistle,Assassins,Candide (1974),Candide (1999),Company,Follies,Freddie Gershon,In the News,Into The Woods,Into The Woods JR.,Marry Me A Little,Merrily We Roll Along,MTI Authors,Pacific Overtures,Passion,Putting it Together (1993 MTC Version),Putting It Together (1999 Broadway Version),Saturday Night,Side By Side By Sondheim,Sunday In The Park With George,Sweeney Todd,Sweeney Todd School Edition,The Frogs,West Side Story,You're Gonna Love Tomorrow

MTI CEO Freddie Gershon, and wife Myrna, have partnered with the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC to create and fund a grant program to reward outstanding teachers in honor of their friend, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.  According to the Washington Examiner, “The Kennedy Center-Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards announced Tuesday will award $10,000 grants [...]

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Song Analysis: “The Story of Lucy and Jessie” from FOLLIES

by KatH on March 1, 2010

in Follies,Show Spotlight

This is the sixth in a series of articles analyzing the works of Stephen Sondheim, in preparation for his 80th birthday. Towards the end of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s legendary musical FOLLIES, any trace of a linear narrative falls away, replaced by thematic performance numbers that express the truths the show’s four main characters [...]

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Teachers and Students Take Part In University of the Arts’ FOLLIES

by KatH on November 18, 2009

in Conferences, Festivals and Special Events,Follies

Life was fun, but oh so intense, Everything was possible, and nothing made sense. Few places embody these lines more than a university, as University of the Arts in Philadelphia demonstrated in late October with its concert presentation of FOLLIES.  The Ira Brind School of Theater Arts quickly settled on the Stephen Sondheim/James Goldman show [...]

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