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SONDHEIM TONIGHT
 A Gala Concert to celebrate the music of Stephen Sondheim.
Barbican Hall London
Sunday 17 May 1998
Two performances: 4.00pm and 8.00pm
In aid of The Alan Jay Lerner Fund for Research into Cancer at The Royal Marsden Hospital.
Musical Numbers and Cast
| ACT ONE |
| Introduction by LIZ ROBERTSON |
| Overture for Stephen Sondheim | ORCHESTRA |
Comedy Tonight
(A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) | SOLOISTS |
| Introduction by NED SHERRIN |
March to the Treaty House
(Pacific Overtures) | ORCHESTRA |
Next
(Pacific Overtures) | ORCHESTRA |
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
(Sweeney Todd) | LEN CARIOU
SOLOISTS |
| Introduction by LEN CARIOU |
Night Waltz
(A Little Night Music) | SOLOISTS |
Losing My Mind
(Follies) | MARIA FRIEDMAN |
Not While I'm Around
(Sweeney Todd) | CLIVE ROWE |
Send in the Clowns
(A Little Night Music) | CLEO LAINE
MARIA FRIEDMAN
CLIVE ROWE |
| Introduction by JULIA McKENZIE |
Stavisky Suite
(Stravisky) | DANCERS |
I Remember
(Evening Primrose) | JULIA MIGENES |
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
(Sweeney Todd) | JULIA MIGENES |
| Introduction by NED SHERRIN |
| A Very Short Violin Sonata | CHRISTINA SUNNERSTAM (violin)
ANTONIA FRANCESCHI (Dancer)
JOEY McKNEELY (Dancer) |
The Ladies Who Lunch
(Company) | DAME EDNA EVERAGE |
Being Alive
(Company) | SOLOISTS
WEST END CHORUS |
Another Hundred People
(Company) | WEST END CHORUS |
Sunday
(Sunday in the Park With George) | SOLOISTS
WEST END CHORUS |
| ACT TWO |
| A Salute to Stephen Sondheim | ORCHESTRA |
Company
(Company] | SOLOISTS |
Barcelona
(Company) | JULIA McKENZIE
DAVID KERNAN |
| Introduction by NED SHERRIN |
Good Thing Going/ Not a Day Goes By
(Merrily We Roll Along) | DAVID KERNAN |
I Never Do Anything Twice
(The Seven Per Cent Solution) | MILLICENT MARTIN |
More
(Dick Tracy) | MARIA FRIEDMAN
SOLOISTS |
| Variations on a Theme (Katie Malone) | DOMINIC JOHN (piano) |
| ELAINE STRITCH (via video) |
| Introduction by LEN CARIOU |
Beautiful Girls
(Follies) | MICHAEL BALL
COMPANY |
Loving You
(Passion) | MICHAEL BALL |
Broadway Baby
(Follies) | MICHAEL BALL |
| STEPHEN SONDHEIM (via telephone) |
| Finale | COMPANY |
| With THE CITY OF LONDON PHILHARMONIC |
| Soloists | GEOFFREY ABBOTT
TERI BIBB
JOANNE FARRELL
LORI HALEY FOX
D MICHAEL HEATH
LISA HULL
CONNIE KUNKLE
JOSEPH MAHOWALD
SOMIN MASTERTON-SMITH
NICHOLAS POUND |
| Dancers | SUSIE BOYLE
MAKJELLA CRMPTON
ALLISON MAHONEY
SAM NELSON
SUZANNE THOMAS
ADAM RICHARD JONES
DAVID LEIGHTON
MARTIN MATTHIAS
MATTHEW SKILTON
HANS VANDERPUTTE |
Production Team
| Devised and Directed by | HUGH WOOLDRIDGE |
| Musical Direction by | DAVID FIRMAN
CHARLES PRINCE |
| Choreography by | KEVAN ALLEN
JOEY McKNEELY |
| Sound by | MIKE WALKER
JANIS GURR |
| Costumes by | JOY BONDINI |
| Set by | RICHARD PLUMB |
Notes
Originally due to be staged for just one performance, an extra matinee performance was added a few weeks before the concert was due to take place.
Jonathan Pryce cancelled, he was due to sing 'Barcelona' with Julia McKenzie (David Kernan took over the part).
Illness forced both Stephen Sondheim and Elaine Stritch to cancel their appearances, hence the video and telephone.
Cast Recording
The entire concert was recorded on a double CD set.
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