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Merrily We Roll Along (song) " Merrily We Roll Along " is a song written by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor in 1935, and used in the Merrie Melodies cartoon Billboard Frolics that same year. It is best known as the theme of Warner Bros. ' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series. The first two lines of Cantor's recording ...
CHORUS: Merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along. Merrily we roll along, o'er the dark blue sea. VERSE II: Farewell, Ladies! Farewell, ladies! Farewell, ladies! We're going to leave you now. CHORUS VERSE III: Sweet dreams, ladies! Sweet dreams, ladies! Sweet dreams, ladies! We're going to leave you now. CHORUS Note: the "Merrily We Roll ...
Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart . The show tells the story of how three friends' lives and friendship devolve over the course of 20 years; it focuses particularly on Franklin Shepard, a ...
For every production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” there is always a question. Ever since the ignominious failure of its Broadway premiere, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical has ...
Published. 1852; 172 years ago. ( 1852) Songwriter (s) Eliphalet Oram Lyte. " Row, Row, Row Your Boat " is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, of American origin, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236.
In "Finishing the Hat," part of his two-volume set of collective lyrics and commentaries, Sondheim observes, "The overriding problem in every version of 'Merrily We Roll Along' is that Frank, the ...
Commercial theater — theater written mostly to entertain audiences, for the purpose of making money — is the enemy in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical, “Merrily We Roll ...
Merrily We Roll Along is a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It concerns a man who has lost the idealistic values of his youth. Its innovative structure presents the story in reverse order, with the character regressing from a mournful adult to a young man whose future is filled with promise. The 1934 Broadway production received mostly ...