Continuing the can't-keep-quiet follies over at Jalapeno, Taj Big Mouth (her hips are pretty huge too, but that won't last on Survivor) blabbed that her husband is someone named "Eddie George," which impressed the hell out of Spencer Jail Bait and Joe Hunk, although Stephen City Nerd, like me, had never heard of him.
If you are suffused with that feeling when "Follies" is over, you have, I think, missed Sondheim's point about the things we must learn to leave behind.
Once the red carpet follies were over, the war correspondent Christiane Amanpour introduced the film, calling it "remarkable and courageous" while warning that there was "no way to sugarcoat" the atrocities it portrays.
The Mediterranean island has committed many follies over the years — and is still making mistakes.
As Blair faded in and out of twilight toward the end, she sang an old tune from "The Goldwyn Follies" over and over, the lyrics providing a glittering denial that would carry her out: "Our love is here to stay".
Like "Gypsy," "Company" and "A Little Night Music," it is one of those Sondheim musicals that engender rabid fans who — given the show's diva-size characters and soul-baring numbers ("I'm Still Here," "Losing My Mind") — have cast their ideal "Follies" over and over again in daydreams.
Wouldn't it be grand if a group of smart people decided to form a musical-theater repertory company, one that gave actors the time, space, technique and passion to stage shows like "Follies" over and over, doing them better each time, and helping the form reinvent itself?
If human beings were potentially capable of applying reason in their lives they would show some sign of learning from what they had done wrong in the past, but history and everyday practice show them committing the same follies over and over again.
It was June of 1913 that Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. moved his legendary Follies over from the Moulin Rouge to the New Amsterdam Theatre.
