Maryrose Wood Like the sharp-witted, no-filter Mary Flynn, the role she created in Broadway’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” Ann Morrison doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable truths.“Good truth is uncomfortable,” says Morrison. “It allows itself to be vulnerable.
If everyone likes my show, then I’m doing something wrong.”So far, everyone seems to not just like, but love Morrison’s new solo show, which brims with truth, vulnerability, and the kind of singing that raises musical theater goosebumps. “Ann Morrison: Merrily From Center Stage,” a deeply personal unraveling of what Morrison did, saw, and importantly, felt, during the original “Merrily’s” ill-fated 1981 production, will be staged at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Aug.
19 and Aug. 20. It had an acclaimed run at the Broadway supper club in May. “I knew I couldn’t tell anyone else’s story. I’m just telling mine,” says Morrison.
Yet her personal through-line in musical theater’s favorite flop redemption tale is inextricable from the Broadway-sized dramas that unfolded around her all those years ago, including the travails of the show’s legendary creators.Forty-plus years after the fact, “Merrily From Center Stage” offers the stories that only Ann Morrison can tell, stories that even “Merrily’s” most diehard fans haven’t heard before.
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