Theater in 2023 was barely surviving but also thriving, depending on which end-of-year assessment you read (see below), but everybody agrees on Stephen Sondheim as the bright spot of the year " including the theatergoers who so far have taken my two most recent polls: In Best and Worst Broadway Show of 2023? ,  "Merrily We Roll Along"...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM on December 11, 2023