James Goldman News

Producers Emily Miller and New York Theatre Barn have announced that Tony Award-Winner Cady Huffman (The Producers, The Will Rogers Follies) will star in WOOD, which is an official selection of the upcoming 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

In an exclusive, live online chat with legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Sunday in the Park with George) and Roundabout's Artistic Director Todd Haimes on Tuesday, May 6th, Stephen Sondheim revealed that plans to bring his musical 'Follies' to film is in the works, though he was mum on the details.

Kritzerland announced its latest release - the original television soundtrack to Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose. Originally aired only once on the ABC Stage 67 television series, Evening Primrose was an original musical written especially for television by Mr. Sondheim and James Goldman, from the short story by John Collier.

One of the greatest film and stage stars of all time, Ann Miller, returned to the theatre as Carlotta in the now famous Paper Mill Playhouse production of the Stephen Sondheim- James Goldman musical Follies. Broadway Beat caught up with her on the first day of rehearsal.

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The Shaw Festival announced their line-up for 2008. It will include the musicals WONDERFUL TOWN (in the Festival Theatre) and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (in the Court House Theatre.) They will also do 4 special concrt performances of the Sondheim/Goldman FOLLIES. The Shaw plays will be GETTING MARRIED and MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION. The season will also include THE LITTLE FOXES, AN INSPECTOR CALLS, THE PRESIDENT, THE STEPMOTHER, AFTER THE DANCE, and a revival of their 2005 production of BELLE MORAL.

Last summer, BroadwayWorld premiered the stunning Broadway digital art of Norn Cutson. Now, Norn is proud to share his portrait of the cast of Follies, the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman classic recently presented as a staged concert at Encores!.

The New York Times reports that Walter Bobbie & Judy Kaye have been cast in Encores! Face the Music.

A new Broadway revival of the Sondheim/Goldman masterpiece Follies may be in the works

According to Whatsonstage.com, Kim Criswell will replace Elaine Stritch as Carlotta Campion in London's upcoming 'Follies in Concert,' which will be presented at the London Palladium on February 4th, 2007 at 7:15 PM.

New York City Center's Encores! 2007 Season pays tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the first Ziegfeld Follies, kicking off the celebration with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's legendary 1971 multiple Tony Award-winner, Follies, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music direction by Eric Stern. Follies will play for six performances, from February 8 - 12 at New York City Center, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.

Broadway song and dance man Jeffry Denman has been cast as the romantic lead in the Encores! staged concert version of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's Face the Music.

With the casting of Colin Donnell as Young Ben and Natalie King Smith as Young Dee Dee, casting for the eagerly anticipated Encores! production of Follies is now complete.

Due to popular demand, the upcoming Encores! staged concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 classic Follies will play an extra performance on February 12th at 8 PM

Theatre legend Elaine Stritch has joined the star-studded cast of 'Follies in Concert,' which will be presented at the London Palladium on February 4th, 2007 at 7:15 PM

Victor Garber and Mimi Hines are the latest stars to sign onto the upcoming Encores! staged concert production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, presented from February 8th through 11th, 2007 at City Center

More stars have signed on to the eagerly awaited Encores! staged concert of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman classic Follies, presented from February 8th through 11th, 2007 at City Center