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...I suspect even Sondheim himself (and James Goldman, who wrote the book) may not have had fully developed ideas about this simultaneity of real life and showtime opulence, the living and the ghostly, moving...
...In his recent book-length miscellany Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim observes that Follies, his near-plotless 1971 musical collaboration with James Goldman, is hobbled by its size, ambition and mysteriousness...
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