19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, were reunited at New York City Center for a reception and performance of the City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along yesterday. Check out our exclusive photos of the evening.
Stephen Sondheim joined original and Encores! cast onstage for the reception and during the curtain call.
Original cast members Mana Allen, Donna Marie Asbury, James Bonkovsky, David Cady, Liz Callaway, Daisy Prince Chaplin, Paul Hyams, David Loud, Marc Moritz , Ann Morrison, Abby Pogrebin, Lonny Price Forest D. Ray, Janie Scott, Tom Shea, David Shine, Gary Stevens, Jim Walton, Terry Finn and Maryrose Wood met at City Center yesterday afternoon for a reception with City Center’s Encores! cast, before attending the evening performance.
The Encores! production features Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Stanley, Betsy Wolfe, Adam Grupper and Zachary Unger.
Merrily We Roll Along, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, is a musical about friendship and the compromise of youthful ideals, based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The show moves backwards in time from 1980 to 1955 and examines the lives of three people whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. It charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim’s own early career and includes some of his most brilliant and bruising songs, such as “Not a Day Goes By,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time” and “Opening Doors.” Merrily We Roll Along will run February 8 – 19, 2012.
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Gary Stevens
Original Broadway Cast Members
Tonya Pinkins, Colin Donnell & Celia Keenan-Bolger with Zachary Unger
Jim Walton, Ann Morrison & Lonny Price
Colin Donnell
Colin Donnell & Celia Keenan-Bolger
Maryrose Wood, Marc Moritz, Tonya Pinkins, Gary Stevens, Ann Morrison and Mana Allen
Celia Keenan-Bolger
Jim Walton
Jim Walton & Ann Morrison
Tonya Pinkins
Stephen Sondheim & Gary Stevens
Colin Donnell & Lonny Price
Colin Donnell & Betsy Wolfe
Colin Donnell & Betsy Wolfe
Jim Walton, Tonya Pinkins & Ann Morrison
Tonya Pinkins & Liz Callaway
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lonny Price
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lonny Price
Colin Donnell & Jim Walton
Colin Donnell & Jim Walton
Colin Donnell & Betsy Wolfe
Colin Donnell & Betsy Wolfe
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim & Tonya Pinkins
Betsy Wolfe
Ann Morrison & Celia Keenan-Bolger
Colin Donnell
Ann Morrison & Celia Keenan-Bolger
Colin Donnell & Betsy Wolfe
Colin Donnell & Betsy Wolfe
Colin Donnell & Jim Walton
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Elizabeth Stanley & the ENCORES! Ensemble Cast
Stephen Sondheim with ENCORES! cast members
Stephen Sondheim with Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Elizabeth Stanley & the ENCORES! Ensemble Cast
