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Merrily We Roll Along Lyrics




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From the Album 1. Overture
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
2. Merrily We Roll Along
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
3. That Frank
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
4. First Transition
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
5. Old Friends (Part 1) / Like It Was
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
6. Franklin Shepard, Inc.
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
7. Second Transition
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
8. Old Friends (Part II)
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
9. Growing Up
    by New Broadway Cast Recording
10. Third Transition
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
11. Not A Day Goes By (Part I)
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
12. Now You Know
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
13. Act Two Opening
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
14. It's A Hit!
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
15. Fourth Transition
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
16. The Blob
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
17. Growing Up (Part II)
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
18. Good Thing Going
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
19. The Blob (Part II)
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
20. Fifth Transition
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
21. Bobby And Jackie And Jack
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
22. Not A Day Goes By (Part II)
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
23. Sixth Transition
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
24. Opening Doors
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
25. Seventh Transition
      by New Broadway Cast Recording
26. Our Time
      by New Broadway Cast Recording



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Merrily We Roll Along is a 1981 American 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 change 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, 1981, in a production directed by frequent Sondheim collaborator Hal Prince, with a cast almost exclusively of teenagers and young adults. However, the show was not the success the previous Sondheim-Prince collaborations had been: after a chaotic series of preview performances, it opened to widely negative reviews, and closed after 16 performances and 44 previews.

In subsequent years, the show has been extensively rewritten and enjoyed several notable productions, including an off-Broadway revival in 1994, and a London premiere in 2000 that won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

The 2022 off-Broadway production staged at New York Theatre Workshop transferred to Broadway in fall 2023, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez, directed by Maria Friedman. A film adaptation starring Paul Mescal, Beanie Feldstein, and Ben Platt is in development.
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Genre(s): Soundtrack, Musical
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