| re: Here is what Bobby has to say about the Roundabout production... | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:34 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Here is what Bobby has to say about the Roundabout production... - Chazwaza 03:43 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
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| "But alas I have heard from several insiders close to Sondheim that he legitimately, especially back then before there was a new acclaimed revival of his work every 1-4 years, that he is/was just happy that his shows were being revived - and I'm sure he knew what a risk Follies was to do on Broadway so I imagine he was happy just to see it happen - but that last line that he regrets Papermill didn't transfer is what I'd heard, and makes me sad. It was better than the Roundabout revival and the Kennedy Center bway transfer, and in my opinion it was better in many ways than the recent West End revival." On Sondheim's part, perhaps at least part of the decision to let Roundabout revive FOLLIES rather than allow the Broadway transfer of the Paper Mill production is that the Roundabout had already established a relationship with Sondheim through their production of COMPANY and may well have made it clear to him even then that they were planning to do more of his shows. Although I doubt the idea of the company eventually naming a Broadway theater after him would have come up at that time :-) "I also think her financial excuse is nonsense, it's not her money at stake if they fund a lavish transfer of the Papermill production to Broadway, it just means less profit for her the fewer weeks it runs... but in a short non-profit run, what's the difference? And an acclaimed revival (because it was done right, lavishly) would only help because even if it might not make a profit on broadway it would invigorate interest in the show and get it produced more around the country/world." The theory that the rights to FOLLIES were granted to Roundabout as a package deal with Goldman's THE LION IN WINTER makes more sense to me, especially since those two productions were within two years of each other. |
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