All Hail the (former) Weissman Follies!

A co-production with Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company presents Stephen Sondheim's celebration of the glamor and glitz in the showgirl era, with direction from Signature's Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner. Concerning the last surviving ex-members of the famed Weismann Follies coming together one last time for a reunion, this masterpiece is a wistful exploration of their past, where youth and ambition made the world feel wide open.

What Is The Story?

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.