Follies

Please note this production can be done with or without an intermission, as indicated in the script. This synopsis is based off of the original 1971 script, which was written as a one act.

An old, dusty curtain rises as a soft timpani plays, revealing tall, pale, ghostly Showgirls dressed in black and white, dancing in slow motion. Waitstaff and musicians begin bustling around the unseen ghosts on stage. Sally Durant Plummer, a 49-year-old former showgirl, rushes in, worried that she’s the first one to arrive. One of the ghostly Showgirls, Young Sally, moves towards Sally as a Waitress hands Sally a silk sash. Other party guests arrive - former showgirls and chorus girls with their husbands and dates, all ranging between their 50s to 80s, mingle around the unseen ghosts as 1920s music plays. When Ben and Phyllis Stone arrive, another ghostly Showgirl, Young Phyllis, moves towards them. Sally’s husband, Buddy Plummer arrives and looks for his wife.

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