Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.
Original Broadway windowcard with artwork by David Edward Byrd
Model of set design by Boris Aronson
Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. With his frequent collaborators Harold Prince and James Lapine, Sondheim's Broadway musicals tackled unexpected themes that ranged beyond the genre's traditional subjects, while addressing darker elements of the human experience. His music and lyrics were tinged with complexity, sophistication, and ambivalence about various aspects of life.
Sondheim, c. 1976
Oscar Hammerstein c. 1940
Sondheim in New York, 1972
Stephen Sondheim (2014)