 Putting It Together
A musical review [sic] in 2 acts. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Manhattan Theatre Club City Center Stage 1 - 2 March 1993 (96 perfs)
with the following cast: Julie Andrews; Stephen Collins; Christopher
Durang; Michael Rupert; Rachel York: Staged by Bob Avian; directed by
Julia McKenzie
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York - 21 November, 1999 (799 perfs) with
the following cast: The Wife: CAROL BURNETT. The Husband: GEORGE HEARN.
The Younger Man: JOHN BARROWMAN. The Younger Woman: RUTHIE HENSHALL.
The Observer: BRONSON PINCHOT. The Wife, (alternate) at certain performances:
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD.
Originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh at the Old Fire Station, Oxford,
England 27 January, 1992
The author and producer have purposely chosen the spelling of
the word review.
Synopsis
A revue with a difference… A revue that tells a story… A
show that covers one night and forty years… A show that takes
place today and also in 200 B.C., 1853, 1882, 1900, the 1950s, the
1970s, the 1980s and tonight.
A show that takes place not only in New York but also Greece and Rome
and London and Paris and Milan and Sweden…
A show that takes place in a Manhattan penthouse, but includes the
stage of an abandoned theatre, an estate in Sweden, an island outside
of Paris, a street off the Roman Forum, the woods of a fairy tale and
a mythical town in the Southwest… All performed by only five
people thrown together at a party.
Sondheim himself has devised this unique and inventive musical entertainment
from his own work, which includes songs from every score he has ever
written as well as some never heard before. His delight in devising
unusual and entertaining crossword puzzles has here found an unexpected
outlet in the way he has put together this extraordinary collection
of brilliant songs into what has been described as the funniest show
Sondheim never wrote… but now he has.
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