From the moment the ghostly floating winged images of the idealised long-gone Follies girls seem to glide across the vast Olivier stage, and the orchestra plays its opening wistful chords, you know you are in for one of the best Sondheim show nights of your life.
The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the oldest tales told. The young poet and composer loses the love of his life when she’s stolen away to Hell by Hades the God of the Underworld. To win her back he must do just one thing – not look back behind him to see if she is following him.
