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Here’s to Them. Who’s Like Them? Damn Few.
Turns out what Merrily We Roll Along needs most is three actors who can really bring it home, and here they are.
The hype around Maria Friedman’s production (which ran at NYTW last December and began its life ten years ago at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory in what was, remarkably, her directorial debut) has involved a lot of excited language about solving or saving the play. Watching Groff — who, as the show moves forward and backward, becomes visibly younger: driven, yes, but also sweet and earnest, almost puppyish — I thought of Chekhov’s successful, unprincipled writer Trigorin, who tells his lover: “I haven’t got any willpower. Gilmour (also the costume designer) dresses them in softly period, unified swaths of color as the play moves back in time — blues, then beiges, then, in the lavish, La Dolce Vita –ish early ‘60s, in hard black and white.
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