Review: Follies by Entr'acte at Parker Jazz Club, March 5, 2023

by Michael Meigs
Published on April 07, 2023

Follies was a reviewer's torment -- too much treasure, no time to signal it. Enormous talent compressed into the small space of the Parker Jazz Club was almost to much to take.

Sarah and Adam, how could you torment a theatre reviewer so? The Sunday afternoon performance of Sondheim's dense, evocative 1971 musical Follies at the atmospheric Parker Jazz Club was the first of only two, performed on a single day. What use, then, is a review, except as an expression of regret that more theatre lovers did not get to witness it?   Wikipedia asserts that Follies was the first work for which Sondheim insisted on writing both …

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