Hey, L.A., We're Coming Your Way: Follies Ends Broadway Run Jan. 22 | Playbill

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News Hey, L.A., We're Coming Your Way: Follies Ends Broadway Run Jan. 22 The critically acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which began life at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in May 2011 and opened on Broadway Sept. 12, 2011, plays its final performance at the Marquis Theatre Jan. 22 at 3 PM. A Los Angeles engagement begins in May.

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Bernadette Peters Photo by Joan Marcus

Upon closing, the Broadway production will have played 38 previews 151 regular performances.

Eric Schaeffer directs and Warren Carlyle choreographs a cast headed by two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, four-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone, two-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein as Buddy Plummer, three-time Emmy Award nominee Ron Raines as Benjamin Stone and Olivier Award winner Elaine Paige as Carlotta Campion.

The production also stars Don Correia as Theodore Whitman, Christian Delcroix as Young Buddy, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Rosalind Elias as Heidi Schiller, Colleen Fitzpatrick as Dee Dee West, Lora Lee Gayer as Young Sally, Michael Hayes as Roscoe, Leah Horowitz as Young Heidi, Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell as Hattie Walker, Florence Lacey as Sandra Crane, Tony Award nominee Mary Beth Peil as Solange LaFitte, David Sabin as Dimitri Weismann, Kirsten Scott as Young Phyllis, Frederick Strother as Max Deems, Nick Verina as Young Ben, Tony Award nominee Susan Watson as Emily Whitman and Terri White, who was recently married on the stage of the St. James Theatre, as Stella Deems. Check out Playbill.com's fall 2011 Diva Talk interview with White.

Rounding out the ensemble are Lawrence Alexander, Brandon Bieber, John Carroll, Mathew deGuzman, Sara Edwards, Leslie Donna Flesner, Jenifer Foote, Suzanne Hylenski, Danielle Jordan, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Joseph Kolinski, Brittany Marcin, Erin N. Moore, Pamela Otterson, Clifton Samuels, Kiira Schmidt, Brian Shepard, Jessica Sheridan, Amos Wolff, Ashley Yeater.

Ron Raines
photo by Joan Marcus
Following Broadway, the musical will transfer to Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre for a limited engagement scheduled for May 3-June 9. The LA company is currently scheduled to include Tony winner Victoria Clark as Sally Durant Plummer, Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone, Burstein as Buddy Plummer, Raines as Benjamin Stone and Paige as Carlotta Campion. Additional casting will be announced at a later time. Follies, which won the 1971 Tony Award for Best Score, has a book by Goldman and music and lyrics by Sondheim.

James Moore serves as music director and conducts the 28-piece orchestra. Jonathan Tunick’s original orchestrations are being employed for the production. 

Follies was originally co-directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett on Broadway in 1971. Since then, it has received a legendary star-filled concert at Lincoln Center in 1985 (preserved on recording), a Roundabout revival on Broadway directed by Matthew Warchus in 2001 (not recorded), a City Center Encores! production in 2007 (not recorded) and numerous regional mountings, including a Paper Mill Playhouse engagement that featured Donna McKechnie and the late Ann Miller (preserved on a cast album). The original cast recording and a London cast recording that includes songs written for that run are also on the market.

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, released the new two-disc set Broadway cast album of Follies Nov. 29. To purchase the recording, click here.

Elaine Paige
photo by Joan Marcus
Follies concerns a group of former "Follies" stars who return to the site of their former glory, the Weismann Theatre, which is about to be demolished. Old wounds resurface as two Follies stars (Phyllis and Sally) and their husbands (Benjamin and Buddy) reassess their lives and what could have been.

Among the show's songs are "Beautiful Girls," "Don't Look at Me," "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," "Rain on the Roof," "Ah, Paris!," "Broadway Baby," "The Road You Didn't Take," "In Buddy's Eyes," "Who's That Woman?," "I'm Still Here," "Too Many Mornings," "The Right Girl," "One More Kiss," "Could I Leave You?," "Loveland," "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow," "Love Will See Us Through," "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues," "Losing My Mind," "The Story of Lucie and Jessie" and "Live, Laugh, Love."

Follies is produced on Broadway by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (David M. Rubenstein, Chairman; Michael M. Kaiser, President; Max Woodward, Vice President); Nederlander Presentations, Inc.; Adrienne Arsht; HRH Foundation, Sponsor; Allan Williams, Executive Producer.

For Broadway tickets, phone (877) 250-2929 or visit Ticketmaster.com.

For ticket information for the Los Angeles engagement, visit www.CenterTheatreGroup.org/Follies or call (213) 972-4400.

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As previously reported, Bernadette Peters will not transfer with the musical in order to fulfill her concert engagements, which she had previously postponed in order to play the Broadway run of Follies. Grammy winner Rosalind Elias will also not play Los Angeles.

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