During The Follies of 1915, W. C. Fields allegedly caught Wynn mugging for the audience under the table during his " Pool Room " routine and knocked him unconscious with his cue.

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.

On the soon-to-be demolished stage of the Weismann Theatre, a reunion is being held to honor Weismann's " Follies " shows past, and the beautiful chorus girls who once performed there.

'" Martin Gottfried wrote: " The concept behind ' Follies ' is theater nostalgia, representing the rose-colored glasses through which we face the fact of age ... the show is conceived in ghostliness.

In an interview in 2008, Sondheim said " There is a move afoot to do Follies movie with a well-known director and a well-known star, and I'm not going to tell you who they are.

Thus, the Ziegfeld Follies is born, a lavish production filled with beautiful women.

It is a smash hit, and is followed by more versions of the Follies.

The annual parade caps off the Oblong " Fall Follies " fall festival and the event is attended each year by large crowds of people from all around the surrounding areas.

Lake Station also plays host to some events such as the Fuzz Follies, which is a car show that takes place in Riverview Park every year since 1984.

Follies fall within the general realm of fanciful and impractical architecture, and whether a particular structure is a folly is sometimes a matter of opinion.

Sullivan's claim is also supported by his 18 March 1917, release of a cartoon short entitled The Tail of Thomas Kat, more than two years prior to Feline Follies.

The down-and-out personality and movements of the cat in Feline Follies reflect key attributes of Chaplin's, and, although blockier than the later Felix, the familiar black body is already there ( Messmer found solid shapes easier to animate ).

He is most noted as the author of The Lion in Winter and author of the book for the Broadway musical Follies.

* New Amsterdam Theatre: Silent film star and former Ziegfeld Follies girl Olive Thomas is said to have appeared several times since her tragic death in 1920.

Minnelli later worked on The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Hooray for What !, Very Warm for May, and The Show is On.

The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman.

Variety noted that " Broadway Came To Branson with the bow of the ' Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Review ' in the new Will Rogers Theater last Saturday ... Pat Boone is a solid hit in Branson as Will Rogers in the ' Follies.

Rogers gets his big break when he is invited to join the Ziegfeld Follies and, by the early 1910s, he is a big vaudeville and radio star.

He is known for his appearances in Rock Follies and other TV series such as The Last Place on Earth, the children's series The Queen's Nose and the drama Mersey Beat and the British TV comedy series Solo, as well as numerous appearances on stage at The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and London's West End.

For instance, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was never featured in the Follies, and the number " Pretty Girl " was written for the 1919 Follies, not the first edition of the revue, as shown in the film.

* Bridgewater State Hospital, Massachusetts, a hospital for the criminally insane, subject of the film Titicut Follies

Much later, it was reprised in the ballet " Limehouse Blues " featuring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer in the musical film Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Featuring numbers by Ray Bolger, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Bruce, and Harriet Hoctor, the film gave a glimpse into what the Follies were really like.

In 1946, George and Ira Gershwin wrote a song titled, “ The Babbitt and the Bromide ,” featured in the film Zigfeld Follies.

Ernie Gehr's 2009 film " Waterfront Follies " was filmed on the waterfront in the area near Carroll Gardens.

One installment, Fox Grandeur News, was released on May 26, 1929 in Fox's short-lived widescreen process Grandeur, and shown before the feature film Fox Movietone Follies of 1929.

A film recreating the Follies with an all-star cast, Ziegfeld Follies, was produced in 1946.

She made her debut at age four in the 1935 film Our Gang Follies of 1936 and was soon given a role in The Bohemian Girl with Laurel and Hardy.

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930.

Film director Basil Dean, after seeing her in Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies, cast her in the 1938 film Penny Paradise, filmed at ATP studios in Ealing.

Williams appeared in the film Ziegfeld Follies as herself.

The company used the release of " Vogues of 1938 " in August 1937 and 5 months later " The Goldwyn Follies ", the second film to use the make-up, to commercially release Pan-Cake to the public, backed by a color based national advertising campaign.

Fields helped make this film in New York City, taking time off from the Ziegfeld Follies, as publicity for the films pointed out.

Titicut Follies is a 1967 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall, about the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Schwartz ’ s client who was “ restrained for 2 ½ months and given six psychiatric drugs at vastly unsafe levels-- choked to death because he could not swallow his food .” Schwartz claims that, “ There is a direct connection between the decision not to show that film publicly and my client dying 20 years later, and a whole host of other people dying in between .” In fact, “ In the years since Mr. Wiseman made ‘ Titicut Follies ’, most of the nation ’ s big mental institutions have been closed or cut back by court orders .” In addition, “ the film may have also influenced the closing of the institution featured in the film .”

Built in 1903, the theatre was the original home of the Ziegfeld Follies, a historical tidbit mentioned in the film during some pre-show banter.

* " I'm Still Here ", a song from Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical, Follies: " I've slept in shanties, guest of the WPA, and I'm here.

His other stage appearances included musicals such as She Loves Me, Gigi ( as Gaston ), and Stephen Sondheim's Follies ( as Benjamin Stone ), for which he won another Olivier Award.

In 1987 she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies.

She starred in a 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies at the Belasco Theater and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Mackintosh has produced several other successful musicals, including Five Guys Named Moe and a much-revised production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

They are mentioned in Stephen Sondheim's list song " I'm Still Here " from his 1971 musical Follies.

The couple had three children: actress / singer Ethel Barrymore Colt ( 1912 – 1977 ), who appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's Follies ; Samuel Colt ( 1909 – 1986 ); and John Drew Colt ( 1913 – 1975 ).

Her last stage performance was a 1998 production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, in which she played the hardboiled survivor Carlotta Campion and received rave reviews for her rendition of the song " I'm Still Here ".

In 2001 / 2002, she replaced Joan Roberts as Heidi Schiller in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

Her defining stage role came with her big break on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's Follies, which ran from February 1971 until July 1, 1972.

They did record Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut as a composer with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but in 1971 they came under fire for refusing to record the complete score of Sondheim's Follies as a 2-LP set.

In 1985, Shepard staged an all-star concert to make a complete recording of Sondheim's Follies.

She was in retirement for many years on Long Island, New York, when she appeared as Heidi Schiller in the 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

In March 1990, she played the role of Heidi in Stephen Sondheim's Follies, in Long Beach, California, her first attempt at serious theater since Flahooley in 1951.

She appeared on the cover of the May 3, 1971 issue of Time as the result of the critical acclaim for her singing and dancing role in Hal Prince's Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, which marked her long-awaited Broadway debut.

Peters ' other theatre roles have included Bedroom Farce ( 1996 ), Noises Off ( 1997 ) Stephen Sondheim's ' Into The Woods '( 1992 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1991 ), Follies in Concert, London Palladium ( 2007 ) and Guys and Dolls ( 1991 ) which was reviewed by Michael Schmidt who said " Among the hot box girls, one in particular kept catching my eye: Wendi Peters as the grumpy chorus girl is a delightfully outsize killjoy whose brilliant comic dancing should have earned her a curtain call all of her own "

In his review of Sondheim's Follies, he wrote " ' Follies ' " is intermissionless and exhausting, an extravaganza that becomes tedious for two simple reasons: Its extravagances have nothing to do with its pebble of a plot ; and the plot, which could be wrapped up in approximately two songs, dawdles through 22 before it declares itself done ... Mr. Sondheim may be too much a man of the seventies, too present-tense sophisticated ... The effort to bind it up inhibits the crackling, open-ended, restlessly varied surges of sound he devised with such distinction for " Company '.

At the same time, shows like Stephen Sondheim's Company began to deconstruct the musical form as it has been practiced through the mid-century, moving away from traditional plot and realistic external settings to explore the central character's inner state ; his Follies relied on pastiches of the Ziegfeld Follies-styled revue ; his Pacific Overtures used Japanese kabuki theatrical practices ; and Merrily We Roll Along told its story backwards.

She appeared in the 1991 Berlin stage production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

* Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd

He also appeared as Benjamin Stone in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies and created a role in the original Broadway production of Kander & Ebb's Steel Pier.