‘Merrily We Roll Along’ review: Infamous Sondheim flop is a smash
nypost.comStephen Sondheim’s 1981 show, which was a 16-performance flop when it began its life, has, against all odds, only improved as the years have rolled on.
It’s better and more youthfully optimistic now than it ever was before. Two hours and 45 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.
At the Hudson Theatre, 141 W. 44th St.Were you to walk in cold to Broadway’s first-ever “Merrily” revival that opens Tuesday night at the Hudson Theatre, you would never know about the gossip-ridden preview period during the 1980s, the calamitous early closing for the celebrated composer of “Sweeney Todd” and director Harold Prince and the decades of trial-and-error rewrites that followed.
None of that.You would, however, be often intensely moved observing a once-airtight friendship deflate backwards, as the scenes play out in reverse order.
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