Merrily We Roll Along

Directed by Jerome Davis
Music Director Christian Stahr
Lighting by Matthew Adelson
Costumes by Stacey Herrison
Production Stage Manager – George Waller

CAST

Dylan Bailey
Natalie Blackman
Terri Crymes
Byron Jennings
John Jimerson
Philip Kim
Katie Milligan
Nona Noe
Natalie Reder
Emma Roe
Daniel Ryder
Gabriella Terrero
Natalie Turgeon
Chandler Vance
Matt Verner
Sarah Winter

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About the Playwrights

Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) was one of the most prolific and beloved composers of the 20th century and is credited with reinventing the American musical. His musicals frequently tackled unexpected themes and addressed darker elements of the human experience than many musicals choose to highlight. Sondheim began his career as a lyricist for the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy. Later in his career, he went on to write both music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins. Over the course of his illustrious career, Sondheim won eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, an Olivier Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. Many of his works have been adapted into films, and his final work for the stage, Here We Are, made its Off-Broadway premiere in 2023, two years after his death at the age of 91.

George Furth (1932-2008) was a librettist, actor, and playwright, best known for collaborating with Stephen Sondheim on Merrily We Roll Along and Company. Furth won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Company and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play for his play, Precious Sons.

Themes

• Friendship
• The cost of success

This production contains discussions of:

• Alcoholism