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Raines Returns To The Stage!

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If you live in the Washington, D.C., area, there’s a hot ticket in town: Follies, the Stephen Sondheim musical, is currently playing at The Kennedy Center, and it’s a smash hit! The play stars Broadway veterans Bernadette Peters (Gypsy), Danny Burstein (South Pacific), Jan Maxwell (Lend Me A Tenor), Elaine Paige (Sunset Boulevard)… and GUIDING LIGHT’s own Ron Raines (Alan)! “It’s just been thrilling to be a part of it,” Raines tells Soaps In Depth. “The talent it’s brought out is just amazing.”

First on Broadway in 1971, Follies follows a group of musical-revue performers reuniting at their former playhouse for one last bash before the crumbling theater’s demolition. “It was inspired by two real theaters that were torn down, and parking lots were made in their space,” explains Raines, himself a vet of The Great White Way (Chicago, Show Boat). “That’s when a lot of the historical preservation [of theaters] started kicking in. But the play was inspired by that kind of action.

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