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Both Sondheim and Prince?and the women who star in Follies???vehemently deny that their musical has anything to do with Broadway's yearning to remember things past. Nonetheless, the success of Follies and Nanette has quickened the pulse of every Broadway grave robber who has read the grosses and misinterpreted them. Now on their way are musicals based on such memory-soaked epics as Come Back, Little Sheba, National Velvet, The Great Gatsby and Some Like It Hot?plus revivals of New Faces of 1952 and the 1944 hit On the Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...energies on a single problem, whether fighting a war or going to the moon. But thinking in compartments is the road to environmental disaster. Americans must view the world in terms of unities rather than units. To recognize the interdependence of all creatures is to see all kinds of follies???from the one-occupant cars that choke highways to the tax policies that discourage mass transit and land preservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...Moulin Rouge in Paris, police quelled a riot of Frenchmen incensed at the discovery that they had paid good francs to see The Fox Movietone Follies??? in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Greenwich Village Follies???The annual production will be headed by the Dolly sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Musical | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...REJUVENATED) FOLLIES??? The outlook wasn't brilliant for the buyers when Mr. Ziegfeld announced the second season of the year-old Follies. Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind. Accordingly he has published a " revised " edition of the Follies. Retaining Gilda Gray, Gallagher and Shean, Evelyn Law, Andrew Tombs, he has added such personages as Ann Pennington, Brooke Johns, Eddie Cantor. The result is a freshening pulse throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Chorus | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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