Follies: In Concert

Follies: In Concert

90 mins | Documentary, Music | March 14, 1986

A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. The plot of the musical centers around a reunion of showgirls who appeared in an annual Follies extravaganza when it was staged between the wars.

Follies: In Concert

90 mins | Documentary, Music | March 14, 1986

Follies: In Concert
A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. The plot of the musical centers around a reunion of showgirls who appeared in an annual Follies extravaganza when it was staged between the wars.
IMDb rating 8.1
Producers KQED, Ellen M. Krass Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Original title Follies: In Concert
Directors Michael Bennett, Michael Houldey
Writers Stephen Sondheim, James Goldman

Cast

Andre Gregory

as Dimitri Weismann

Stephen Sondheim

as Self- Composer

Arthur Rubin

as Roscoe

Barbara Cook

as Sally Durant Plummer

George Hearn

as Benjamin Stone

Herbert Ross

as Self- Concert Director

Jim Walton

as Young Buddy

Paul Gemignani

as Self- Conductor

Howard McGillin

as Young Ben

Mandy Patinkin

as Buddy Plummer

Lee Remick

as Phyllis Rogers Stone

Liz Callaway

as Young Sally

Daisy Prince

as Young Phyllis

Betty Comden

as Emily Whitman

Adolph Green

as Theodore Whitman

Liliane Montevecchi

as Solange Lafitte

Elaine Stritch

as Hattie Walker

Phyllis Newman

as Stella Deems

Carol Burnett

as Carlotta Campion

Licia Albanese

as Heidi Schiller

Erie Mills

as Young Heidi

Ronn Carroll

as Chorus

Susan Cella

as Chorus

Robert Henderson

as Chorus

Frank Kopyc

as Chorus

Marti Morris

as Chorus

Ted Sperling

as Chorus

Susan Terry

as Chorus

Sandra Wheeler

as Chorus

Karen Fraction

as Dancer

Jamie M. Pisano

as Dancer

Elvera Sciarra

as Dancer

Roy Scheider

as Narrator

Thomas Z. Shepard

as Self - Interviewee