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re: Musicals we love: Sondheim's Follies

Posted by:	keikekaze 06:20 pm EST 01/20/14
In reply to:	re: Musicals we love: Sondheim's Follies - EvFoDr 04:19 pm EST 01/20/14

I didn't mean to suggest that Sondheim consciously or unconsciously modeled any of the songs I named on Rodgers and Hammerstein, only that R & H themselves might have come up with rather similar numbers in a similar dramatic situation, as a response to Laura's question about which Follies songs were in the R & H "style." As to "I'm Still Here," I feel sure it's an autobiographical character song. It certainly can't be Carlotta's old Follies number (though "Can That Boy Foxtrot" might have been). The McCarthy references (among others) would have been out of period, the Thirties "nostalgia" references are too ironic and self-conscious to date from the Thirties themselves, and why would a woman who was young at the time be singing "I'm Still Here"? No, I think it must be a character song for the present-day Carlotta.

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