In a gorgeous production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and the excellent Lindsay Mendez star as the trio of friends charting their lives in reverse. Read TimTeeman's review:
in a career-shining role as Franklin Shepard, the rich, famous songwriter and film producer, and Lindsay Mendez, the standout of the show, as Mary Flynn, the drink-guzzling truth-teller of the group who loves Franklin hopelessly and who also wants desperately to keep the trio intact—despite Franklin’s wealth and airless Hollywood fame, and the ambitions and manipulations of his viperish wife Gussie Carnegie helping to drive them apart.
As performed so beautifully here, the other songs don’t just pull at your heart-strings, they shred them: “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Not a Day Goes By,” and “Our Time” are all differently perfect distillations of regret, longing, desire, hopes, and dreams. “Opening Doors,” “Rich and Happy,” “It’s a Hit!” and “Good Thing Going” are more rollicking, charting upward life and career ascents.
It’s taken 10 years for this production to make its way from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory via an Olivier Award-stop in the the West End to New York, and the NYTW’s small stage makes it even more of a treat—we can hear the gorgeous harmonies close-up .
You see the making of the asshole that Franklin becomes—how money and success maketh a monster who early on was just a bit thoughtless. We see how art is the most important thing, and then becomes a wrestled-over and defiled commodity. We see friendship curdle, then bloom. In everything bad we see good seeds, accentuating the heartbreak of so much that is ultimately lost or broken.
And in Mendez’s spectacular performance as Mary , we see not just a simple tale of unrequited love—for Franklin—but the crushing disappointment of the present day compared to where we end the musical, where three people met on a roof, their creativity and smarts sparking, ready to take on some kind of world out there.shows where the highways and byways of love, creativity, friendship, and ambition can leave us.
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