Donna McKechnie has been singing the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim on stage since playing Phila on the tour of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way...
My heart broke instantaneously when I heard of Stephen Sondheim’s passing. I started singing “Every Day a Little Death” from A Little Night Music. When I...
On April 10, 2021 Marilyn Maye turned 93. She celebrated her big day at the Wick Theatre in Florida. For New Yorker’s and for those who...
Tony Award and Olivier Award–winning choreographer for Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, Follies and Miss Saigon, Bob Avian, has died of cardiac arrest. He was 83. Avian...
“I’m all for the women who speak out, and I’m very glad that they now have a platform to speak out.” Diana Rigg I first fell...
Jim Brochu, is an actor, writer, director, and playwright. His stage debut was in a production of William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. A friend of Lucille Ball, he...
Today we wish Stephen Sondheim a happy 90th birthday with 9 different video finds. I offer up highlights from the Hollywood Bowl celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s...
Warner Classics and the National Theatre announce the digital download and streaming release of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical Follies – 2018 National Theatre Cast Recording today. The critically-acclaimed musical tells the...
Liliane Montevecchi was exquisitely French, like the finest vintage champagne. Her remarkable journey began as a Prima Ballerina in Paris with the Roland Petit’s dance company....
The Marquis Theatre where Jan Maxwell last appeared in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies will dim their lights in memory. On February 21, at exactly 7:45pm for one minute...
It is with a saddened heart that I announced that Broadway star, five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner Jan Maxwell has has passed away. She...
Did you know that the original Christine and Al from A Chorus Line, fell in love and got married in the show Follies? In 1971, the...
It has been 30 years since Stephen Sondheim’s 1971 magnificent and uniquely challenging big musical had a new and full London staging (The Broadway production opened on April 4,...
When I first came to New York my boyfriend took me to The Carlyle to see Barbara Cook. During the show her microphone broke and she...
Donna McKechnie and an auditorium filled with guests gathered at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for the New York Festival of Song’s Spring Gala honoring Stephen Sondheim. Co-chaired by...
On Wednesday, April 19 at 7:00 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York Festival of Song—“the city’s indefatigable art-song devotees” (The New Yorker)—presents Honoring Stephen Sondheim, an evening to...
John McMartin, was an original cast member of Stephan Sondheim’s Follies. At the age of 86 Cancer took McMartin’s life. He made his off-Broadway debut in Little Mary Sunshine in...
Sondheim’s at age 25 was hired to write lyrics for Leonard Bernstein’s 1957 musical West Side Story. Before West Side Story opened, he made his Broadway debut as a composer,...
