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#1Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:44am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx6tUozRoHw


Here is a trailer to the recently improved 1971 Follies film. I added a few new songs, as well as some dialogue scenes. I will be putting the full film (58 minutes long!) up on Youtube soon. Stay tuned! 


Here is the old version: 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbjtoquCfjU

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#2Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:46am

Don't ever stop.


gcal
#2Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:48am

This is thrilling!

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#3Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:50am

Thank you! I'll be putting the full version up soon. 


I certainly won't stop (until I have managed to get ahold of all the footage there is out there)!


 

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#4Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:57am

There are no words - I'm not religious, but God bless you!! Can't wait for more.

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#5Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 12:05pm

Haha, thank you! I would upload it sooner, but it takes so long to upload on Youtube...

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#6Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 12:06pm

 It truly is wonderful to watch any footage of that legendary production from time to time, don't stop. I hope that one day that we can have a production that comes close to the imagination of what Prince, Bennett, Aronson, Klotz and Musser created.


Maybe Bartlett Sher, Christopher Wheeldon, Michael Yeargan, Catherine Zuber, and Donald Holder could make a very imaginative production like that someday... Many FOLLIES fans could only dream of a production like that.

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#7Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 12:11pm

Do you have the curtain call from the THIS IS YOUR LIFE episode?

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#8Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 12:20pm

Yes Jordan, I do have the curtain calls from TIYL, as well as the footage of the Shubert Theatre. It's a shame they didn't show anything else on that program. 

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#9Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 12:48pm

Maybe Bartlett Sher, Christopher Wheeldon, Michael Yeargan, Catherine Zuber, and Donald Holder could make a very imaginative production like that someday... Many FOLLIES fans could only dream of a production like that.


I have talked about this production happening in 10-15 years. Kelli O'Hara for Sally, Benanti for Phyllis, Patti for Hattie! Vicky Clark for Heidi!

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#10Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 12:54pm

Maybe it's best if it remains in the memories of those who were there and in these videos. Any production compared to this one would most probably seem like a disappointment. 

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#11Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:05pm

Is there anything that you know exists that you DON'T have?


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#12Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:10pm

I know there exists a very good quality version of the 29 Dubbed footage (which Deester2 has - I contacted him about a month ago about it, and he never answered), and there is also some footage which can be seen during "Who's That Woman" and "Loveland", which I only have in parts. 

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#13Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:15pm

"Maybe it's best if it remains in the memories of those who were there and in these videos. Any production compared to this one would most probably seem like a disappointment. "


Maybe, but one can still dream. I think at this point in his career, Bartlett Sher and his talented crew have proven time and time again that he can work wonders on a musical revival that amazes people to the point where comparisons to the original (or any other production) vanish completely.

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#14Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:21pm

Well, maybe it's just that I'm old-fashioned and that I'm not partial to changes. :) However, I wouldn't mind if he did make a revival. 

Updated On: 5/1/15 at 01:21 PM

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#15Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:23pm

"Maybe it's best if it remains in the memories of those who were there and in these videos. Any production compared to this one would most probably seem like a disappointment. "


I agree with this. You're not gonna find, say, an Ethel Shutta who can duplicate what she did. To attempt to recreate Follies a la Gus Van Sant's Psycho shot-for-shot remake would be impossible.

Updated On: 5/1/15 at 01:23 PM

mamaleh
#16Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:27pm

Love seeing that footage again; I feel like I'm back in school, when I saw that original production four times.  I thank my fandom for John McMartin for getting me into the Winter Garden four times to see that show.  To this day, it remains the single best show/production I have ever seen.

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#17Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:30pm

The only real way I think it could be done would be to get all the people who were involved in the original production (Mr. Sondheim, Mr. Prince, Mr. McMartin) and others willing to do this to perfection and make them copy exactly everything from the original production. They'd have to copy exactly the costumes, wigs, sets, dances, music arrangements, etc... (Maybe the sets are still around. What does happen to sets after a production closes?)

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#18Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:30pm

""Maybe it's best if it remains in the memories of those who were there and in these videos. Any production compared to this one would most probably seem like a disappointment. "
I agree with this. You're gonna gonna find, say, an Ethel Shutta who can duplicate what she did. To attempt to recreate Follies a la Gus Van Sant's Psycho shot-for-shot remake would be impossible."


I think Bartlett Sher will never recreate what the talented men and women of 1971 made, but Sher makes such unique productions that his own imagination is unleashed. SOUTH PACIFIC was proof enough that he can do it; and after when he's done with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, I sure hope that FOLLIES is on his mind.

Updated On: 5/1/15 at 01:30 PM

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#19Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:32pm

"Love seeing that footage again; I feel like I'm back in school, when I saw that original production four times.  I thank my fandom for John McMartin for getting me into the Winter Garden four times to see that show.  To this day, it remains the single best show/production I have ever seen."


You had John McMartin get you to see it? How on earth did you get to meet him? You were so lucky!

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#20Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:35pm

Question. Is poster artist David Byrd (the man behind the original poster of FOLLIES) still working today? He is quite a talent, making such detailed and iconic works of art that if you take the poster wording off of the FOLLIES poster, it becomes a work of art of it's own.

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#21Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 1:45pm

He also did the window cards for Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. They are all three (including Follies) quite similar, now that I think about it!

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#22Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/1/15 at 5:05pm

Interesting fun fact: Did you know that Byrd not only made a new poster for a 20th anniversary production in California that used some of Bennett's staging work, but he also used an old sketch that was rejected from the 71' poster into a new poster for the Encores! production in 2007?


Interesting stuff. 

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#23Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/2/15 at 1:09am

Most grateful thanks, FolliesFan.

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#24Follies (1971 Production) Video
Posted: 5/2/15 at 1:29am

THANK YOU!