Sadly, I believe Snow just died last year, in his early 70s. For one thing, they couldn't do musical comedy like Kevin and Patti. Norman Snow and his beautiful wife Mary Joan Negro were considered the biggest stars of the original Acting Company but their careers never took off like classmates Kevin Kline and Patti Lupone's did. After all that I'll say it was still miles better than the Roundabout and Bernadette Peters revivals. Everything else was a bit shaky, if pretty to look at (but no competition with the Aronson and Klotz original designs). Donna McKechnie was a surprisingly effective Sally and Lawrence Guittard was a dashing Ben, and whoever played Young Ben had some hot shirtless bed scenes with Young Sally, but that was about it.
Sondheom was wise to keep it from Broadway. That Paper Mill FOLLIES has gained a lot of affection in the years since but it was really not all that great. We were not impressed, snarky Yale Drama School grads that we were. There is apparently a lot of speculation out there that all those quotes from FOLLIES OF GOD were made up by the author as he was never able to fully prove he actually had interviews with many of the quoted actors, directors and writers, including Tennessee Williams (who's quoted most often).Ī friend and I saw that 1970s Delacorte TAMING OF THE SHREW and left at Intermission.
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