Saturday Night is a 1950s musical by Stephen Sondheim, with a book by brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, based on their play, Front Porch in Flatbush.
Saturday Night was set to premiere in the 1954-55 Broadway season. Announcements of the production appeared in the New York Times, and auditions were held in mid-1955, following some revisions to the music brought about by backers' auditions. In the summer of 1955, it appeared that S...
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Saturday Night is a 1950s musical by Stephen Sondheim, with a book by brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, based on their play, Front Porch in Flatbush.
Saturday Night was set to premiere in the 1954-55 Broadway season. Announcements of the production appeared in the New York Times, and auditions were held in mid-1955, following some revisions to the music brought about by backers' auditions. In the summer of 1955, it appeared that Saturday Night would be Sondheim's musical debut on Broadway that fall. However, in August 1955, lead producer Lemuel Ayers died, leaving the production with little morale and even less cash. The production was scrapped, and the musical material shelved. Although a handful of songs from the musical have appeared in revues and on Sondheim compilation albums, the score as a whole went unperformed until 1997.
The Stephen Sondheim Society put on a student concert version of the musical at the University of Birmingham, written by Prof Stephen...
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