Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Firth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

It tells the story of what happens when friendship is tainted by ambition. In reverse. The show starts at the end of the story, in 1980 as we’re introduced to the three central characters, each damaged in their own way and with the bond between them apparently irreparable.

We then travel backwards through time, watching the moments of their lives that led them from 60’s idealists who shared the same dreams, to bitter artists wondering what might have been.

The end of the show marks the beginning of their story where everything seems possible, despite the fact that we already know how things finish.

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