Productions7 on Broadway
| 1934 | Music Box Theatre Original. September 29, 1934 · predates this show | 155 performances |
| 1981 | Alvin Theatre Revival. November 16, 1981 · Harold Prince | 16 performances |
| 2001 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. | |
| 2002 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer. September 30, 2002 | |
| 2012 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. | |
| 2013 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. | |
| 2023 | Hudson Theatre Revival. October 12, 2023 · Maria Friedman | 352 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Merrily We Roll Along matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor Another house is also recorded for this work. |
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In the literature48 passages
Kaufman and Hart once again joined forces to write the next Music Box show: Merrily We Roll Along (1934). This unusual comedy started in the present and went back-wards in time. It served as the basis for a 1981 musical of the same title by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p166
Kaufman returned with his collaborator Moss Hart and their unconventional play Merrily We Roll Along (9/29/34; 155 performances). The play told its story in a reverse chronology. Audiences were not completely confused by the strange construction, but they certainly did not care for any of the cynical, disillusioned cha… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p385
Stephen Sondheim returned to the Alvin with his musical Merrily We Roll Along (11/16/81; 16 performances). Librettist George Furth, who had previously collaborated with Sondheim on Company (also at the Alvin), based his book on the Kaufman and Hart play of the same name. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p396
The Prince-Sondheim collaboration ended with the ill-fated Merrily We Roll Along (11/16/81; 16 performances). Reteaming with George Furth, the pair attempted to musicalize a KAUFMAN AND Hart comedy about friendship that was told in reverse chronology. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p445
The next Prince/Sondheim collaboration was the thriller Merrily We Roll Along (11/16/81; 16 performances), an adaptation of the Kaufman and Hart play. The show was told in reverse order. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p523
Stephen Sondheim's score for Merrily We Roll Along was thrilling, augmented by Jonathan Tunick’s incredible, brassy orchestrations; but the show, as seen at the Alvin, no. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p25
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