![]() ![]() But the real selling point here is the wonderful principal cast, with three leads who could scarcely be better.įriedman opens the show and centers the entire reflection on two decades of friendship - moving backwards in time from the late ‘70s to 1957 - around Franklin Shepard. It’s directed with great affection for the material - if not always with equal finesse - by Maria Friedman, whose history with the show dates back to playing female lead Mary in the U.K. The sold-out revival that comes to New York Theatre Workshop and is widely expected to transfer to Broadway has its roots in a 2012 staging at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, which moved to the West End the following year. The one consistent factor with the musical’s fluctuating fortunes has been the fanatical love for Sondheim’s score. Issues with Furth’s book have been improved in various subsequent revisions and contemporary audiences are no doubt more open to both the tricky structure and to a plot that probably seemed sour in its day, tracing the path of three friends from youthful idealism to jaded disappointment. But it’s not just historical significance that makes the show play much more accessibly today. That fractured collaboration between two giants of the theater no longer with us has poignant echoes in the plot of Merrily, which was adapted from the 1934 play by George S. ![]() Broadway's 'Back to the Future' Musical Finds Its Marty McFly ![]()
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