"Maria Friedman’s staging brings the intelligence of the songs fully alive...It’s therefore no small thing to say that in her effort to drag a half-living thing like 'Merrily' to full life, Friedman is more than halfway there. Maybe, finally, it’s a hit."
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"Friedman’s production meets the audience halfway, and a Broadway audience today just might be able to make up the difference as it couldn’t in 1981. Cross your fingers: It might finally be 'Merrily’s' time."
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"This show’s cast has made the run at New York Theatre Workshop a sold-out event."
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"Among Sondheim musicals, 'Merrily' feels especially precious now because it invites the possibility of some personal glimpse at the songwriter himself."
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"With a superlative cast in the three central roles - the show casts a quietly intoxicating spell, as we watch their lives reel backward, from middle age and its clouds of disillusion to the heedless hopefulness of young adulthood."
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"Friedman, a veteran star of the stage herself, knows every inch of this treacherous living landscape and, merrily, verily, her loyal crew go along with her cheerily and unknowingly to the brink."
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"There’s much to be grateful for here, not least a genuine feeling for the material that plumbs the emotional depths without wading into cheap sentiment...it’s good to have the show back in what appears to be viable form to rewrite its Broadway history."
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"Thanks to superlative casting and canny direction, this elegant, emotionally searching production may be the finest 'Merrily' you’ll ever see."
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