Ann Morrison – Merrily From Center Stage

Merrily From Center Stage recalls a very specific time in 1981 when the legendary musical theater team of Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim, and George Furth were creating Merrily We Roll Along for Broadway. Through the eyes of her award-winning character Mary Flynn, Morrison’s musical play describes, ingeniously, the story of that time, only in her unique (and uniquely individual) way. What she and Musical Director John Shirley have done is take all of those memories, deconstruct them, reconstruct them, and then layer in the original Merrily score, also de-and-re-constructed, to tell what becomes a richly-layered, dramatically and emotionally satisfying tale of triumph.