‘Follies’ Memories - a Revival With Bernadette Peters

NYTimes.com: EVERY Broadway musical has its originalists, the devotees who judge every subsequent production against the memory of the first one. The you-had-to-be-there contingent is particularly strong for “Follies,” Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s 1971 collaboration with the directors Harold Prince and Michael Bennett. Goldman’s book and Mr. Sondheim’s music and lyrics use the reunion of showgirls from a fictitious Ziegfeld Follies-style revue to juxtapose the dazzling heyday of Depression-era Broadway with the decades of ambivalence and regret that followed. The latest revival — directed by Eric Schaeffer and featuring Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines and Danny Burstein — will undoubtedly generate its own share of memories when it opens on Sept. 12 at the Marquis Theater.