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SONDHEIM REVISING SHOW FOR BURNETT.


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Carol Burnett and Stephen Sondheim will team up at the Mark Taper Forum The Mark Taper Forum is a small thrust stage with 745 seats at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Beckett and Associates. It has presented innovative plays since 1967. The world premiere of Angels In America was produced here.  this fall for a new version of ``Putting It Together,'' the all-Sondheim chamber musical that earned critical raves in previous productions in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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 and London.

Sondheim is revising the show especially for Los Angeles and will weave songs, some of which have not been previously heard, from his entire canon of work into a piece specially tailored for Burnett. The show is being produced in association with mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh as the first presentation of the Taper's 1998-99 season, Oct. 4-Nov. 29.

Directing the show will be Eric D. Schaeffer, an avid Sondheim interpreter who has staged ``Sunday in the Park With George,'' ``Passion,'' ``Into the Woods,'' ``Company'' and ``Assassins.''

Musical staging will be by Bob Avian, who choreographed the original Manhattan Theatre Club About Manhattan Theatre Club
This season marks Manhattan Theatre Club’s 37th anniversary as one of the country’s leading nonprofit producers of contemporary theatre.
 Production of ``Putting It Together'' in March 1993.

Tickets for the show will be reserved first for Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson subscribers. Single-ticket sales will begin at a date to be announced To be announced (TBA)

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 this summer. For information, call (213) 628-2772.
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Title Annotation:L.A. LIFE
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Feb 8, 1998
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