MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Apple Tree Theatre
In his script for Merrily George Furth (Sondheim’s collaborator on Company, whose brittle humor and snappy jazz-pop musical style Merrily recalls) focuses on a trio of close friends–composer Franklin Shepard, lyricist Charley Kringas, and writer Mary Flynn. The script follows their relationship from its hopeful beginning to its sordid dissolution some 20 years later, as the success of Frank and Charley’s early collaborations leads them down different paths; Mary–a wisecracking drunk apparently patterned after Dorothy Parker–goes along for the ride.
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SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Roger Lewin-Jennifer Girard Studio.
