Sondheim: Follies, Part 2
Series: American Music Publisher: A-R Editions, American Musicological Society
This volume is part of the set Sondheim: Follies
Follies, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, Part 2
Edited by Jon Alan Conrad
MU34B/A096 Sondheim: Follies, Part 2
978-1-9872-0899-3
Full Score (2025)
9.5x13.75, viii + [385]-799 pp.
$375.00
In stock
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MU34B/A096
This edition presents Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies in full score. Follies is set in 1971, the year of its creation, at a reunion of the (fictional) “Weismann Follies” on the eve of their theater’s destruction. This scenario gives Sondheim, who wrote both music and lyrics, the opportunity to create what amounts to two interlocking scores. One explores the thoughts and interactions of the guests, the music often revealing the lies behind their words. The other, recalling the Follies performances of decades earlier, allows Sondheim to evoke the words and music of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and many other popular songwriters from the interwar period. The show culminates in a series of fantasy production numbers that unite past and present, displaying each of the four principals in his or her own “folly,” using materials evocative of the past to suggest the pain behind popular entertainment and the dangers of nostalgia. Publishing the music in full score (a rarity for musicals) allows a full appreciation of both its detail and Jonathan Tunick’s orchestrations.
Performance licensing and materials for Follies is available through Music Theatre International: https://www.mtishows.com/follies
This edition is published by permission of Round Hill Carlin (previously Carlin America, Inc.).
No. 16. The Right Girl (Buddy)
No. 17. One More Kiss (Heidi, Young Heidi)
No. 18. Could I Leave You? (Phyllis)
Loveland
The Folly of Love
No. 19–1. Loveland (Company)
The Folly of Youth
No. 19–2. You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow (Young Ben, Young Phyllis) / Love Will See Us Through (Young Buddy, Young Sally)
No. 19–2a. Tomorrow—Exit
Buddy’s Folly
No. 19–3. Buddy’s Blues [The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues] (Buddy, assisted by “Margie” and “Sally”)
Sally’s Folly
No. 19–4. Losing My Mind (Sally)
Phyllis’s Folly
No. 19–5. The Story of Lucy and Jessie (Phyllis, Ensemble)
Ben’s Folly
No. 19–6. Live, Laugh, Love (Ben, Ensemble)
No. 19–7. Finale—Chaos
No. 19–7a. Finale Addendum
No. 19–8. Curtain (Young Sally, Young Phyllis, Young Buddy, Young Ben)
No. 20. Bows
Jon Alan Conrad is an Associate Professor Emeritus of the University of Delaware School of Music. Born in Chicago, he received a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1985, with a dissertation on the songs of George Gershwin. He has been a contributing editor of Opus magazine and has written for such publications as Opera Quarterly, Opera News, The Kurt Weill Newsletter, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, The Viking Opera Guide, The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Music, and The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video. In addition to the Follies edition for MUSA, he is co-editor of the forthcoming critical edition of One Touch of Venus for the Kurt Weill Edition.