I was grateful for the opportunity to see it (twice).įollowing the Kaufman and Hart play on which it is loosely based, the musical tells the story backwards in time. If you avoid the theater’s site and the show’s program, however, you can ignore the wokery almost entirely. Theater Latté Da is an echt woke institution.
Not surprisingly, the show’s current run has been extended to November 6. I can only say I think this one is is outstanding. I can’t compare it to any other production. I have seen it over each of the past two weekends. I had no expectation that I would ever get a chance to see the musical itself, but it is now playing at Minneapolis’s Theater Latté Da at the Ritz Theater in northeast Minneapolis.
By contrast with Guys and Dolls, however, the book is thin and the gist of the musical is disillusionment. In its wit and beauty, I think the score is up there with Frank Loesser’s for Guys and Dolls. If the documentary doesn’t exactly invert the theme of the musical, it offers an ironic twist on it.Īfter watching the documentary I started listening to the original cast album - recorded the morning after the show closed. The documentary depicts how the cast members turned the crushing failure of their dreams into successful lives. Merrily We Roll Along portrays the corruptions of success. The film is a riveting and inspirational documentary about the original production and cast of the Broadway musical. Price himself played one of the leads in the show. If you’re a Sondheim fanatic, you will recognize the title of the documentary as a play on one of the songs in the legendary Sondheim flop Merrily We Roll Along (book by George Furth, produced by Hal Prince).
Lonny Price’s Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened is one of my favorite documentaries.
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