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December 3, 2017

Natural, distinctively human: SUNDAY cast recording with Gyllenhaal

REVIEW BY RICK PENDER

There was a significant buzz around the New York City Center’s Gala in October 2016 when movie star Jake Gyllenhaal took on the leading role of Georges Seurat in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George. He had performed as Seymour for City Center’s Encores! presentation of Little Shop of Horrors […]

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Filed Under: Review Tagged With: Annaleigh Ashford, Chris Fenwick, Encores!, Hudson Theatre, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Lapine, New York City Center, Sarna Lapine, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

October 20, 2017

FORUM: Energy and Anarchy in Philadelphia

REVIEW BY ANDREW MILNER

Burt Shevelove informally referred to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the 1962 Stephen Sondheim musical he co-authored with Larry Gelbart, as “A Scenario for Vaudevillians.” It’s only fitting that an internationally known impersonator of legendary vaudevillian Groucho Marx, Frank Ferrante, would essay the role of Pseudolus for Walnut Street Theatre […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Burt Shevelove, Forum, Frank Ferrante, Larry Gelbart, Philadelphia, Stephen Sondheim, Walnut Street Theatre

October 19, 2017

London’s MERRILY came to Boston

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

In keeping with the reverse-chronology concept of Merrily We Roll Along, let’s start with the ending. It was gorgeous in Maria Friedman’s production at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston (Sept. 8-Oct. 15, 2017). A sky just this side of black was studded with stars, but even brighter were the ones in the eyes of […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Boston, Damian Humbley, Huntington Theatre Company, Maria Friedman, Mark Umbers, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim

October 6, 2017

Maria & Lenny & Steve

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

Does Maria Friedman remind you a little of Barbara Cook? Though her blond hair is a short bob rather than a flowing mane, Friedman seems to be reinventing herself in mid-career just as Cook did in her 50s, and Stephen Sondheim’s music is playing a big part. From Sept. 19 to 23, 2017, she brought […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: 54 Below, Leonard Bernstein, Maria Friedman, Stephen Sondheim

October 5, 2017

Assassins in Sydney

REVIEW BY PETER KHOURY

The Hayes Theatre Company in Sydney delivers a riveting, high energy and highly accomplished production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1990 musical Assassins (Sept. 15-Oct. 22, 2017). The political backdrop of the production strongly evokes a Trumpesque universe that is divisive, bizarre, threatening and unpredictable. On the show’s September opening night the Sydney audience […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents, Uncategorized

October 1, 2017

(Hal) Prince of Broadway

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

Stephen Sondheim once joked that an album of his chart-topping songs would have to be titled Sondheim’s Greatest Hit, since he had only one, “Send In the Clowns.” Hal Prince, the legendary producer and director, has had a few more. Prince of Broadway, the revue that finally had its Broadway opening (Aug. 24, 2017) after […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Stroman

August 1, 2017

Chilling Images for ASSASSINS at Encores!

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

Both New York City Center’s Encores! series and its near contemporary, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, have appreciated in value and estimation since their premieres in the early 1990s. The mission of Encores! was to give obscure or overlooked musicals new life in one-week runs of semi-staged concert versions. In the early days, that meant actors on […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Anne Kaufman, Assassins, Chris Fenwick, Encores!, Stephen Sondheim

July 13, 2017

“Sondheim on Sondheim” at Tanglewood

BY DIANE NOTTLE

“God” wasn’t there, though Stephen Sondheim was. Neither were “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “Now You Know,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs” and other staples of the Roundabout Theater Company’s 2010 Sondheim on Sondheim on Broadway. In fact, the concert version presented on July 8, 2018, at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: James Lapine, Keith Lockhart, Sondheim on Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim, Tanglewood

May 5, 2017

MERRILY and otherwise

REVIEW BY DONALD ROSENBERG

  No show in the annals of the American musical theater has risen so promisingly, crashed so quickly and become such an iconic work as Merrily We Roll Along — Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 show directed by Harold Prince. How did the team of Sondheim and Prince, collaborators on five groundbreaking musicals in […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Best Worst Thing, Hal Prince, Lonny Price, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim

May 5, 2017

Expatriates in their own country

BY DONALD P. GAGNON

In the wake of the most recent election cycle, there seems to be “another national anthem” playing for many disenfranchised and marginalized Americans. If only for that reason, Yale Rep’s spring production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins (March 17-April 8, 2017) was not only timely but also troubling. However, James Bundy’s production went […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Assassins, James Bundy, Stephen Sondheim, Yale Repertory Theatre

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