'Follies' embraces the challenge of staging and performing this challenging musical and succeeds with flying colours, it is as great a production of 'Follies' as one can get. It is a shame that 'Follies' is not performed more often, and it has nothing to do with its quality as a musical but more that it is difficult to stage and perform. Everything a good, great even, musical ought to be. A musical with delicious spectacle and entertainment value, a large amount of emotional impact, memorable characters, beautiful melodies and clever lyrics. Both of which can be found in another one of his best works 'Follies'. Also love his immensely clever lyric writing. Love his melodies, and disagree with those who hated the film version of 'Into the Woods' (am not one of those) who said that there were no memorable songs in that musical or that they were repetitive, happen to think 'Into the Woods' is one of his best musicals. Love musicals and am a great admirer of Stephen Sondheim, have been for a while since 'Sweeney Todd'.
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