Event |
Follies
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| Venue |
Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC |
| First Date |
1 February 2025 |
| Opening Date |
1 February 2025 |
| Last Date |
6 February 2025 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
In a run-down theatre scheduled for demolition, former chorus girls reunite to honour their performances there during the interwar years. The theatre is ramshackle and the harshness of age has tarnished the rosy tint of their nostalgia. But as the women remember those glamorous years, the faded theatre is propelled back through time and transforms into its former grandeur. Sparkling ghosts of their youth perform old numbers, and the women’s unfinished business soon becomes clear.
We enter Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s world of 1971 Broadway and hear the incredible line-up of iconic so |
| Description Source |
Website |
| Primary Genre |
Music Theatre
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| Subjects |
Theatre
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
United States of America
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Web |
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| Correspondence |
Jamie Henson |
| Programme |
Jamie Henson collection |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
207958 |
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