So let's say I wanted to make a playlist with every piece from Follies that has been recorded including any incidental music/dialogue (which we have a lot of now thanks to PS Classics) and a full appendix (even more extensive than the Papermill recording. Anyone want to take a stab at an Ultimate Follies Playlist? Off the top of my head I think the OLC has a few pieces that can't be found on any other recording, such as Country House, Social Dancing, and Make the Most of your Music.
Prologue (Papermill) Beautiful Girls (Concert) Don't Look at Me (OBC) Waiting for the Girls Upstairs (OBC) Rain on the Roof/Ah Paris/Broadway Baby (2011) The Road you Didn't Take (OBC) Bolero D'Amour (Papermill) In Buddy's Eyes (OBC) Who's That Woman (2011) I'm Still Here (OBC/Soundboard -- I've never really loved anyone else doing this but Yvonne DeCarlo) Too Many Mornings (OBC) The Right Girl (OBC/Soundboard) One More Kiss (OBC) Could I Leave You? (OBC) Loveland (BBC concert) You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through (Concert) Buddy's Blues (2011) Losing My Mind (OBC) The Story of Lucy and Jessie (2011) Live, Laugh, Love (2011)
The extras: Bring on the Girls (Papermill) Can That Boy Foxtrot! (Papermill) All Things Bright and Beautiful (I'm going with the "Marry Me a Little" one here, minus the "Bang!" interlude, because I find the singing on the Papermill totally grating) Pleasant Little Kingdom (Scrabble album) That Old Piano Roll (Papermill) Who Could Be Blue/Little White House (Papermill) Uptown/Downtown (Papermill) It Wasn't Meant to Happen ("Marry Me a Little") Country House ("Putting it Together") Social Dancing (London) Loveland (London) Ah, But Underneath (London) Make the Most of Your Music (London)
Instrumentals: The World is Full of Boys/The World's Full of Girls (aka Operetta) ("Stavinsky")
Besides, no ultimate list could be truly ultimate without Nancy Walker's definitive "I'm Still Here" from the Scrabble album, which topped Yvonne DeCarlo's rendition, even to people (like me) who saw Yvonne DeCarlo:
Wow. Great discussion guys. Now just for the poops and giggles here's a ridic question. If you were to put the songs from the appendix in the running order of the show as listed so well and completely by lizabombs, where would you put them?
Here's my playlist- 1- Winter Garden soundboard- 1971. 2- Boston bootleg- 1971. 3- Los Angeles bootleg w/replacements Janet Blair and Edward Winter- 1972.
after seeing Follies last weekend, I was thinking of making an ultimate playlist as well! Someone else mentioned the NYC and Boston soundboard and bootleg. If anyone knows more info about how to find them, could you PM me?
"Any list missing Donna McKechnie's "Losing My Mind" and "Lucy and Jessie" is an incorrect list."
Her Lucy and Jessie :S?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Thought it was kind of odd to revive a discussion that ended so long ago. But if you've got that kind of time and an insightful comment that enriches the discussion, have at it.
LOL @ FishemanBob...at first I thought you were "Losing Your Mind" (pun intended), but then I realized when I was replying to this message that I've blocked the poster you're questioning.