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First Listen
1:39 pm
Tue November 22, 2011

First Listen: 'Follies (New Broadway Cast Recording)'

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Where everybody lives to love: In Act 2 of Follies, what's been a relatively dark story explodes into a riot of color in what's known as the Loveland sequence — an homage to the spectacular Broadway follies staged between the World Wars.
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Ron Raines (Benjamin Stone) and Company perform in the recent production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.
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Now and then: Ron Raines and Bernadette Peters sing passionately of a less cynical time, while their younger selves (Lora Lee Gayer and Nick Verina) hover in the half-light.
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Originally published on Mon November 21, 2011 10:00 pm

It's tough to untangle the sonic appeal of Follies — the landmark 1971 musical that stirs Stephen Sondheim fans to a frenzy each time it gets revived — from the show's visual splendors.

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Monkey See
4:18 pm
Mon October 31, 2011

For Halloween, Please Enjoy This Story In Which NPH Freaks Out Ever So Gently

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Delusion sold 25,000 tickets — at $40 a head — in less than a week. Creator Jon Braver hopes the attraction's success might be enough to launch a franchise.

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Hands ... touching hands: In L.A., a singularly effective new haunted-house experience had NPR's Neda Ulaby (and Monkey See favorite Neil Patrick Harris) shivering contentedly.

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It's Halloween. Want to hear Neil Patrick Harris get freaked out?

Thought so. You'll want to click on that play button above, and check out Neda Ulaby's All Things Considered piece on an L.A. haunted house — more of an interactive play, really — called Delusion.

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Monkey See
1:50 pm
Mon October 31, 2011

John Hodgman And Robert Siegel Consider 'All' Things, Some Of Them Rather Dubious

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"I could be wrong, you know:" John Hodgman notes that while his book That Is All is intensely concerned with "the coming global superpocalypse," it also contains much information about travel and sports and wine, and is "not depressing."

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Originally published on Mon October 31, 2011 4:51 pm

If there's anything guaranteed to lift the heart of an NPR nerd, it's the sound of All Things Considered's Robert Siegel losing his composure. This is a news anchor, after all, who can deliver the song title "Party 'Til You Puke" with all the gravity of a president announcing the death of a hero. (No, really. This happened.)

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