Category: Stephen Sondheim

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Album Review: Follies (2011 New Broadway Cast Recording)

  “I wanted something when I came here 30 years ago but I forgot to write it…

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Album Review: Sunday in the Park with George (2006 London Cast Recording)

“Everyone gets along with him, that’s the problem with him” In listening to cast recordings, one can…

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Album Review: Company (1996 London Cast Recording)

 “It’s things like using force together, Shouting till you’re hoarse together, Getting a divorce together” Sam Mendes’…

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Album Review: Gypsy (2015 London Cast Recording)

  “I had a dream, a wonderful dream” From the moment Imelda Staunton shook the very foundations…

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Album Review: Gypsy (2008 Broadway Cast Recording)

  “Here she is boys…here she is world!”  Listening to the 2008 Broadway Cast Recording of Gypsy…

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Album Review: Kim Criswell – Back To Before

  “Where are they now, those women who stared from the mirror?” I saw Kim Criswell for…

Posted in Albums Kander + Ebb Lee Hall Music Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Ruthie Henshall – I’ve Loved These Days

  “It’s like that there’s a music playing in your ear” For one reason or another, Ruthie…

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Winners of 2015 Lucille Lortel Awards

Outstanding Play WINNER – Between Riverside and Crazy Produced by Atlantic Theater Company. Written by Stephen Adly…

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Review: Follies in Concert, Royal Albert Hall

“Flawless charmers Every one” An early birthday from my Aunty Jean saw me get to revisit those…