Follies (Piano/Voice/Guitar) (Vocal Score Series) - Softcover

Stephen Sondheim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881885711 ISBN 13: 9780881885712

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 1989

Synopsis

Originally entitled The Girls Upstairs, Follies is set in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, during a reunion for all the past members of the Weismann's Follies, a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies) which played in that theatre between the World Wars. The musical focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Ben and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were both showgirls in the Follies as were many of the other guests. Both marriages are having problems because Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road, Sally is still in love with Ben as she was years ago, and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned. The two couples interact with each other and other partygoers, and throughout the first half, musical numbers from the old Follies are performed by the characters, sometimes accompanied by the ghosts of their former selves. These songs are pastiches of songs by popular songwriters of the past. The last section of the show features a string of vaudeville-style numbers reflecting the leading characters' emotional troubles before returning to the theatre for the end of the reunion party.

Contents:

Ah, Paris!

Beautiful Girls

Bolero D'amour

Broadway Baby

Could I Leave You?

Don't Look At Me

The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues

I'm Still Here

In Buddy's Eyes

Live, Laugh, Love

Losing My Mind

Love Will See Us Through

Loveland

One More Kiss

Rain On The Roof

The Right Girl

The Road You Didn't Take

The Story Of Lucy And Jessie

Too Many Mornings

Waiting For The Girls Upstairs

Who's That Woman?

You're Gonna Love Tomorrow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0881885711
• ISBN 13: 9780881885712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265