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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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, and the few reviews I saw said it was sweet and funny. And they were right! Madison Ferris, one of the leads, was absolutely hilarious. The whole story revolves around a relationship between two disabled folks who use assistive devices to talk and wheelchairs to move around, and they got so much humor out of the premise and while still making me cry at the end.

Illinois - Last show of the trip, on my actual birthday, and it was so damn good. I’ve loved that album for many, many years, and was a bit skeptical of it as a dance show, but I am happy to report it worked well. The singers were overall pretty excellent, though I think I wanted a little bit more from the male singer at times. The guy playing Sufjan Henry resembles him to a distracting degree, and was very good. We must have had an understudy debut for Clark, because the cast was hyping him up like crazy during bows!!

Overall, great trip! I love theater so goddamn much.

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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.