All Hail the (former) Weissman Follies!
St Louis, you are in for a real treat this fall as the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis opens its 50th anniversary season with smash musical Follies, with a local and Broadway-studded cast! Stephen Sondheim's musical is a celebration of the glamor and glitz in the showgirl era, with the last surviving ex-members of the famed Weismann Follies coming together one last time for a reunion that both delves into their past, and examines their uneasy lives.
Featuring what many consider to be the best songs in Sondheim's canon including "Losing My Mind," "I'm Still Here," and "Broadway Baby," the story takes us back to 1971, where theatrical impresario Dimitri Weissmann hosts a reunion get-together of his ex-Follies showgirls at his dilapidated old theater. Amid the reminiscing, all is not well between the faded stars; the main focus of the musical is on two middle-aged couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone as their tumultuous respective marriages and infidelities force them all to confront some unpleasant truths about their lives, paving the way to an uncertain future.