What's with the shameless Apple rip off "(iSondheim)"?

Along with songs, the multimedia production will include new and archival commentary from Sondheim.

he Alliance Theatre is canceling “iSondheim,” a highly anticipated musical revue of the works of Stephen Sondheim, and replacing it with a revival of the 2007 hit “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.”

The decision is being blamed on the economic downturn. The show’s commercial producers said they were not able to raise the money for the project, and Alliance artistic director Susan V. Booth called the news “heartbreaking.”

“We were very much looking forward to working with (writer/director) James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim on such an exceptional theatrical project,” Booth said in a release.

The multimedia show had been billed as a high point of the Alliance’s 40th anniversary season, along with the recently ended “Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL.” “iSondheim” was to run April 15-May 10. “Jacques Brel,” which picked up five of last year’s Suzi Bass Awards for professional theater in Atlanta, will now fill the slot.

an all-woman Sondheim review created by Lonny Price did appear earlier this year[/url]: it was called Beautiful Girls and starred Zoe Caldwell, Jenn Colella, Marin Mazzie and Donna McKechnie.