The run closed July 7, 2024
- Opened
- October 12, 2023
- Closed
- July 7, 2024
- Performances
- 352
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hudson Theatre
Of the 175 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and record a performance count, this is the 13th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Merrily We Roll Along 6 more that season
| 1934 | Music Box Theatre Original | 155 perf. |
| 1981 | Alvin Theatre Revival · Harold Prince | 16 perf. |
| 2001 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2002 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer | |
| 2012 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2013 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it13 named
Reg Rogers
Corey Mach
Talia Simone Robinson
Brian Sears
Evan Alexander Smith
Vishal Vaidya
Jacob Keith Watson
Coby Getzug
5 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters4 roles recorded
Jonathan Groff Franklin Shepard
Daniel Radcliffe Charley Kringas
Lindsay Mendez Mary Flynn
Reg Rogers Joe Josephson
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Maria Friedman
- Choreographer
- Tim Jackson
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The show tells the story of how three friends' lives and friendship devolve over the course of 20 years; it focuses particularly on Franklin Shepard, a talented composer of musicals who, over those 20 years, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. Like the play on which it is based, the show's story moves in reverse chronology, beginning in 1976 at the friends' lowest moment and ending in 1957, at their youthful best. Merrily premiered on Broadway on November 16,…
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What this page does not know
- No recording is held for Merrily We Roll Along at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.