Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the composer-lyricist's masterpiece. So MERRILY closed " after 16 performances. While word-of-mouth during [...]
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:07AM on November 30, 2012