Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez dish on bringing Merrily We Roll Along from stage to screen

When it first hit Broadway in 1981, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's decades-spanning musical Merrily We Roll Along was a total flop. The original run of the show ran for 16 performances and 44 previews before closing.

But in the years since, Merrily We Roll Along has enjoyed much bigger critical and commercial success, and no production exemplifies that more than the show's 2023 Broadway revival. Directed by Maria Friedman, the revival starred Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez as Merrily We Roll Along's core trio of Franklin Shepard, Charley Kringas, and Mary Flynn. The show charts their friendship in reverse chronological order, starting with a bitter stand-off in 1977 before turning back the years to their first meeting in ...