‘Merrily We Roll Alongside’ Revival Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff to Transfer to Broadway

The Off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Alongside, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, will transfer to Broadway within the fall.

The manufacturing, directed by Maria Friedman, is at the moment taking part in a sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop by means of Jan. 22. It got here to New York after runs on London’s West Finish and on the Menier Chocolate Manufacturing unit.

That is the primary Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Alongside, after it premiered on Broadway for a brief run in 1981. The musical, which contains a rating by Sondheim and a ebook by Furth, follows three mates, performed by Radcliffe, Groff and Mendez, and travels backwards by means of time to observe them over three a long time of working in leisure.

A revival of Sondheim’s Into the Woods is at the moment taking part in on Broadway and a revival of Sweeney Todd is deliberate for Broadway this spring.

Sonda Friedman Productions, David Babani, Patrick Catullo and Jeff Romley will produce Merrily We Roll Alongside on Broadway.

The revival additionally options Krystal Pleasure Brown, Katie Rose Clarke and Reg Rogers. Choreography is by Tim Jackson and orchestrations are by Tony Award winner Jonathan Tunick.

Actual dates and the Broadway theater the place Merrily We Roll Alongside will play shall be introduced at a later date.

This story was initially revealed by The Hollywood Reporter.