Follies Prologue/Overture

1998 Papermill production

[@Seabasstien]

We had Music, we had liner notes and Album Cover Art❤ .

[@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai]

Sondheim is an immensely talented composer; Without even seeing the play, this evokes that memory long forgotten but never was.

[@keikekaze]

The first three and a half minutes (presumably the "Prologue" music, as distinct from the more standard medley overture that follows) strongly foreshadow Sondheim's music for the main theme from the film Stavisky, which followed three years later. Not exactly the same, of course, but very much in the same vein.

[@nicholasluu7554]

A lot of Stavitsky songs are cut songs from follies. The vocal score for follies has them in the back, or on KZbin search Sondheim Follies Demos and listen to his demos of early follies songs, then relisten to stavitsky. He even uses an earlier version of beautiful girls in the soundtrack.

[@johntlew]

This is record cover for original cast album. I think what you hear is also from that. If not why aren’t you showing record cover from Paper Mill.