Broadway Roundup: Performances from 'Merrily We Roll Along', 'Stereophonic', 'The Great Gatsby'

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Broadway stars Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez perform "Old Friends" from their Tony Award-nominated musical, Merrily We Roll Along. Catch the show during its strictly limited engagement, now through July 7th at Broadway’s Hudson Theater.

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So psyched that they actually televised a Merrily performance, gonna have to download it so I can have it forever! DanRad is a little flat/nervy sounding initially, but he's so good in the show it doesn't matter. And man, I want Groff to win the Tony.

"Masquerade" is such a bop, I Iove it.

Just got back from a big NYC theater trip - some thoughts on the shows we saw! [Spoiler (click to open)]

The Outsiders - Picked up tickets for this last minute when we ended up getting to NYC early enough to see a show that night. Really enjoyed the visuals and the talent on stage, though many of the songs were lyrically awful. I did enjoy a few though, and the guy playing Ponyboy, Brody Grant, has a phenomenal voice. I also liked Joshua Boone as Dalley, but the guy playing Johnny was awful. There are definitely some changes from the book, which I know fans here were pretty peeved about, but I only read it for the first time a few months ago so I didn’t mind too much.

An Enemy of the People - Strong cast for this one, with Michael Imperioli being the only one who

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The Lonely Few - This was one of the big disappointments of the trip, unfortunately. I saw this show three times in LA last year, and was so looking forward to seeing it again, but while they kept the talented performers and most of the (excellent) songs, they absolutely butchered the book and character development of two of the supporting characters. It was brutal to watch a show transformed for the worse like that, I hope they fix it. :/ Lauren Patten's voice is a fucking knockout, though!

Three Houses - Dave Malloy is such a good writer, jesus!! This was a show about the pandemic quarantine era, and just hearing that turned me off because I just don’t care to revisit it at all, but of course he made it work beautifully. Loved Margo Seibert and Mia Pak, but I don’t really care for JD Mollison. The music was giving Comet & Ghost Quartet, in a good way!!

All of Me - This was a last minute booking because it was a Sunday night show and basically no one does those! Sweetening the pot for me was Kyra Sedgwick, who I love,

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Great reviews. I've been on the fence about Illinoise because every marketing I see about it makes it very much come off like Sufjan Stevens...the Glee version, which is just not my deal at all, but more and more I'm coming across people saying it works so we'll see.

[drnilescrane]

So many great things to see! Sad you didn't get into Lempicka, I was hoping you'd be able to review 🥲

I'd heard about Stereophonic but now I get why no one was mentioning the plot haha, if it's just another rehash of FM

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Yeah, I regret not buying ahead for Lempicka because it would have been really affordable had I done that! But with it closing the weekend we were there, prices really spiked last minute.

And yeah it's definitely a fully Fleetwood Mac bts sort of thing, with a couple of audio engineers acting as the audience inserts. I can see why people are tired of that, but I was into it!

[drnilescrane]

Yeah it closed so quickly so I'd hoped you caught it! It's the one I felt was most divisive, which is why I was most curious about it.

While Daisy Jones wasn't perfect, I've really loved the music. So was the stereophonic music any good?

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Ngl I didn't get more than an ep into Daisy Jones bc Sam Claflin's casting took me the fuck out, so I can't compare the music, but I genuinely love the Stereophonic music. They put out a cast recording, and I am listening to it as I type!!

[drnilescrane]

I didn't read the books but honestly, I just really liked Riley and so I just kept going. But now I know, I'm gonna listen to at the gym! ❤️

Also happy late birthday lol

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Aw thank you!! <3

[jojito]

Where can I watch the Merrily performance?

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It's the first video in this post, does it not show up for you? :/ They were on Colbert, idk if that's geoblocked.

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Ohh, I thought you meant a performance of the full musical 🤣.

[symphonicdream]

okay i feel very validated about outsiders because i sat there like ".......is this entire song just sing yelling the words "great expectations"????" it was entertaining as a whole but i'm guessing a large part of its popularity is the brand recognition

i'm glad you enjoyed most of what you saw though, what a great lineup!!