Sondheim's Old Friends, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York, NY
The company performing "Comedy Tonight" in Sondheim's Old Friends in the Manhattan Theatre Club's production. Photo credit: Matthew Murphy. Sondheim’s Old Friends , the Manhattan Theatre Club’s current production at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is a love letter to the late composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. As pretty much every theatre aficionado, and especially every musical theatre aficionado, knows, Sondheim was the preeminent creative force behind some of the most iconic works of the last half of the 20 th century. And many of those iconic shows have been (and continue to be) revived in the first quarter of the 21 st century: witness the currently-running Gypsy with Audra McDonald, and two Tony-nominated revivals during the 2023-2024 season, Merrily We Roll Along (which won) and Sweeney Todd . Devised by producer Cameron Mackintosh, Sondheim's Old Friends is a smorgasbord of some of Sondheim’s best. In addition to those revivals, Sondheim’s ...