Off Broadway Review: ‘merrily We Roll Along’

Gordon Cox, Variety
Tue, 02/19/2019 - 8:00pm

Like the optimistic youths at the end — or is it the beginning? — of “Merrily We Roll Along,” creatives keep going back to this problematic Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, re-imagining the show in the hope that the end results will be different this time around. They’re not. But disappointments are often off-set by new […]

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