After a blockbuster run at the New York Theater Workshop, Maria Friedman’s celebrated production of “Merrily We Roll Along” heads to Broadway.
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Friedman leaned into those instincts at London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she was invited to direct students in a little production ofyears later, in 2010. Other important takeaways followed. “I was so shocked that the whole show wasn’t about Mary,” she says with a laugh. “And the second thing I realized: Itbe done by people in their 20s. It just can’t. The first half is all about people who have arrived, done things, lost things, missed things, made mistakes.
“I keep wanting people not only to like it, but to appreciate George’s work,” Sondheim once said. “It’s the Dickensian child in the corner”felt fated. “I had just reached this point in my life where I was really looking back and reflecting on relationships that I suddenly realized were almost two decades old,” he explains. He later learned that Radcliffe and Mendez had done their own “first big New York shows” at around the same time.
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