This 'Follies' is no second fiddle
Gary Griffin's production for Chicago Shakespeare Theater is different from the Broadway revival Among Stephen Sondheim fans, it's already being called "the other 'Follies.'" When Gary Griffin and Chicago Shakespeare Theater began making plans for a major Chicago revival of the 1971 musical (book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Sondheim) about a bittersweet reunion of former showgirls, they'd no idea that dire…