Upcoming Merrily We Roll Along Revival Extends Broadway Run | Playbill

Broadway News Upcoming Merrily We Roll Along Revival Extends Broadway Run

Audiences will have an additional two months to see the Sondheim-Furth musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez.

Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez in Merrily We Roll Along Joan Marcus

The upcoming Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along has added two months of performances to its limited engagement at the Hudson Theatre. Originally scheduled to run through January 21, 2024, the production will now stay until March 24. Performances begin September 19, with opening night to be announced. Tickets for the newly announced performances go on sale beginning at 10 AM ET at MerrilyOnBroadway.com.

As previously announced, the production will feature much of the cast from the 2022 Off-Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop reprising their performances, including Daniel Radcliffe as Charley Kringas, Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard, Lindsay Mendez as Mary Flynn, Krystal Joy Brown as Gussie Carnegie, Katie Rose Clarke as Beth Shepard, and Reg Rogers as Joe Josephson.

The company will also include Sherz Aletaha, Leana Rae Concepcion, Morgan Kirner, Corey Mach, Talia Robinson, Amanda Rose, Jamila Sabares-Klemm, Brian Sears, Evan Alexander Smith, Christian Strange, Koray Tarhan, Vishal Vaidya, Natalie Wachen, and Jacob Keith Watson.

READ: Maria Friedman On Why Daniel Radcliffe Was Born to Play Charley Kringas in Merrily We Roll Along

Maria Friedman will again direct, with choreography by Tim Jackson and orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Additional creative team members will be revealed in the coming weeks.

With a book by Furth—adapted from the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart play of the same name—and a score by Sondheim, the musical tracks the lives of three friends navigating the entertainment industry over three decades in reverse chronological order. Sondheim's score includes such songs as "Old Friends," "Now You Know," "Franklin Shepard, Inc.," "Good Thing Going," and "Not a Day Goes By."

The work was not a success on its first Broadway outing, running just 16 performances and ending the string of genre-defining collaborations between Sondheim and director Hal Prince. Together with the popularity of the show's original Broadway cast album, a revised version of the show has transformed the work into a cult favorite. This current production was originally staged at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012 and later transferred to the West End, where it won an Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival. Huntington Theatre in Boston gave the staging its North American premiere in 2017. The upcoming Broadway run will be the work's first-ever Main Stem revival.

See Lindsay Mendez, Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Radcliffe in Merrily We Roll Along

 
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