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Critics and Their Criticism

One more kiss

Without attempting to rival The New York Times' enormous celebratory package, your doyenne lauds the golden anniversary of the Broadway opening night of the seminal musical Follies with a selection of parterre box and parterre box-adjacent pieces devoted to this gorgeous monster of a show.

By La Cieca on April 04, 2021 at 1:14 PM

Sondheim sensibility: postmodernism

Sondheim sensibility: camp

Look at these people: aren’t they eerie?

Each in her style a Delilah reborn

Beautiful girls

Who is Heidi?

Helmets off, here they come, those Beautiful Girls!

She got through all of last year

Lunchin’ with Lucine

The cher public are invited to add links to their favorite Follies critiques, articles or videos!

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Topics: critics and their criticism, follies

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