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The idea for Merrily originated from a suggestion by Hal Prince's wife, Judy, that he do a show about teenagers; he decided that a musical version of the 1934 George S. Kaufman/Moss Hart play Merrily We Roll Along would be a good fit, and when he called Sondheim about the idea, Sondheim "said yes on the phone".
Merrily We Roll Along is an upcoming American epic musical film written and directed by Richard Linklater based on the 1981 stage musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, which is in turn adapted from the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. [1]
Groff starred in the role of Franklin Shepard in the 2022 New York Theatre Workshop off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. [108] In December 2022, it was announced that he would reprise his role in the first Broadway revival of the musical in fall of 2023, [109] for which he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a ...
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 ...
The original Broadway production of “Merrily We Roll Along” flopped, closing after 16 performances and 44 previews. In contrast, the revival will have played 312 performances and 20 previews ...
"Merrily We Roll Along" director Maria Friedman and star Jonathan Groff at the Hudson Theatre in New York on May 21, 2024. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times)
The starry Off Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along featuring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez doesn’t begin previews for another two months, and already it’s gotten a ...
In 2022, she played Gussie Carnegie, a Broadway diva married to self-centered writer Frank Shepard, played by Jonathan Groff in the off-Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along at the New York Theatre Workshop. For her performance she was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. [12]