MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Broadway revival recoups

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:38am

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/First-Broadway-Revival-of-MERRILY-WE-ROLL-ALONG-Recoups-Initial-Capitalization-20240320

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:40am

Not surprised in the slightest.

Hal, Stephen, and George are smiling from above

[inception]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:41am

Oh good.  Now they can finally raise prices. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:43am

It’s (finally) a hit!

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 9:59am

Folks it's Funny Girl, Fiddler, and Dolly combined...

[gordi_92]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 11:45am

Maybe they could release more Lottery seats now 😂😂😂

[Kad]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 11:47am

Has any other flop show had such a trajectory like this?

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 11:53am

Kad said: "Has any other flop show had such a trajectory like this?"


The original Chicago ran for two years but I’m sure none of them could have imagined a revival running for decades.

[BdwyFan]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 12:11pm

This is truly amazing.  Very impressed.  Getting tickets now will be hard I would imagine.  Since closing July 7 and front runner for Tony Revival I’d guess. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 12:22pm

Hard? There are tickets available for both performances TODAY.  (Not many, but still.)

 

Even the closing performance has several hundred available.  There is not a single performance going forward that is already sold out, and very few even listed as having low availability.

 

Will they likely be sold out by performance date? Sure, but it's not like the early days of Hamilton. Nothing has been since COVID. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 1:08pm

Kad said: "Has any other flop show had such a trajectory like this?"

Financially speaking, divorced from quality, it's almost unheard of. Nothing on this level has ever happened that I'm aware of.

There are plenty of shows whose revivals have run longer than the originals (Cabaret, Chicago, West Side Story, No No Nanette, etc etc etc) and shows that played Broadway years after premiering off-Bway or elsewhere, but this MERRILY situation is so unprecedented. 

[binau]

Posted: 3/20/24 at 2:03pm

It's unprecedented but I think it's because everything about this is unprecedented. Sondheim's work is unprecedented. There is no other person in musical theatre history who writes scores even close to him, and there is no way they could get a cast like this in this kind of flop if it wasn't Sondheim. We are truly, truly blessed to be theatre fans living in this time (and anyone of course that was alive to see all the original productions was also blessed). Sometimes I feel like I could be the happiest person alive. 

[bear88]

Posted: 3/21/24 at 2:15am

All I know is that Sondheim would have really enjoyed Merrily’s huge success. I wish Sondheim had lived to see Here We Are too, but this turnabout - more than four decades later - would have pleased him immensely.