Merrily We Roll Along

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OCOpen Captioned
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SFSensory Friendly

Merrily We Roll Along

Back by popular demand

A filmed performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, starring Tony winners Daniel Radcliffe (the Harry Potter series, Swiss Army Man), Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Spring Awakening), and Lindsay Mendez (Carousel, All Rise). This immersive film showcases brilliant and groundbreaking direction by director Maria Friedman, capturing the performances up close and personal, unlike anything audiences have ever seen before.

Spanning three decades, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along charts the turbulent relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two lifelong friends—writer Mary and lyricist & playwright Charley. Originally produced on Broadway in 1981 before becoming an inventive cult-classic ahead of its time, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Stephen Sondheim’s most celebrated and personal songs.

"You can wait around and hope, but it’s difficult to believe that this rediscovered Sondheim classic with Grof, Mendez and Radcliffe will ever have a more feeling and vital performance than this one."
Peter Travers, The Travers Take
"At times it’s as if you’re onstage with the cast. And yet that simple approach, in confident hands, reflects the magic that only cameras and cutting can do: collapse distance and time into a special intimacy, letting strong actors with expert-level songs be the greatest of special effects."
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

This film is part of the World Stage on Screen series.



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