But for the stars of this first Broadway revival - Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe - embodying the implosion of that friendship may well be more emotionally charged, rewarding and wrenching than anything they’ve done before.Īs often happens with actors portraying intimacy, the sentiments they evoke in performance have bled into real life - or the good feelings anyway, when their characters are still fresh, hopeful and unconditionally smitten with one another. What propels the highs and lows of “Merrily We Roll Along,” the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical that begins performances this month at the Hudson Theater, is friendship. (You could also say it begins in tragedy and ends in ecstasy, but more on that later.) One big difference, though, between this triangle and the more classic variety: Sex is not part of the equation for its leading lovers. Like many triangles, this one involves jealousy, guilt, misunderstanding, recrimination and betrayal.Īs is usually the case with such affairs, it begins in ecstasy and ends in tragedy. What promises to be the most passionate love story of the new Broadway season is a tale of three people.
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