Merrily We Roll Along
Past productions
- Menier Chocolate Factory, Harold Pinter Theatre, London
- Menier Chocolate Factory, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
- Scarborough Music Theatre, Scarborough Village Theatre
- Scarborough Music Theatre, Scarborough Village Theatre
- Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Watermill Theatre, Newbury
- Donmar Warehouse, Donmar Warehouse, London
- Haymarket Theatre Company, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
A play by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim’s musical adaptation of the Kaufman and Hart play transforms the story of three successful people looking back on their lost friendship. Frank, Mary, and Charley grew up to realize their dreams and goals, but may have paid a greater price than they anticipated. Frank’s anguished question—“Why?”—begins the journey backwards in time, recalling rivalries, jealousies, triumphs, failures, and loves both unrequited and reciprocal, as the three seek to discover how they got from “there” to “here.” Merrily We Roll Along tells a masterful tale of three remarkable people reflecting on years of aspiration and reality, and dreams both fulfilled and lost.