Danny Burstein on the Broadway Revival of ‘Follies’ and Getting Advice from Sondheim
Burstein never saw the original before he received the part, but of course there were a lot of opinions about how it should be.
Terri White, “Follies” at the Kennedy Center
“Knowing the history of black performers,” White explains, “actual follies didn’t have black female dancers. If you were black, you only did a specialty act—if you were lucky. I put that knowledge into Stella.”