Daniel Radcliffe Will Direct MERRILY WE ROLL Along at New York Theatre Workshop
Daniel Radcliffe will lead a new production of Merrily We Roll Alongside at New York Theatre Workshop!
NYTW introduced today that the musical, showcasing music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a e book by George Furth, and based on the initial enjoy by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, will full the company’s 2022/23 Time.
Directed by Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman and choreographed by Tim Jackson, Merrily We Roll Together is presented by unique arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions, the Menier Chocolate Factory (Creative Director, David Babani), and Patrick Catullo, and will star Radcliffe as Charley. Merrily We Roll Together is prepared for late 2022 at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003). Supplemental information, such as the complete cast, will be introduced at a afterwards day.
Spanning three many years in the enjoyment business, Merrily We Roll Together charts the turbulent partnership in between composer Franklin Shepard and his two lifelong good friends – author Mary and lyricist & playwright Charley. An ingenious, cult-common ahead of its time, Merrily We Roll Alongside characteristics some of Stephen Sondheim‘s most celebrated and individual tracks. Maria Friedman to start with directed the musical at London’s Menier Chocolate Manufacturing unit which subsequently transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre to critical acclaim-the most 5-star testimonials in West Finish historical past-profitable the Olivier Award for Very best Musical.
NYTW also introduced right now two new cross-period membership packages, presenting a particular deal for the remaining 2021/22 season, as properly as guaranteeing accessibility to the 2022/23 time. Cross-year memberships (7-Perform Premiere for $425 or 7-Play Cross-Year for $335) are on sale now at NYTW.org or by calling 212-460-5475. Early renewal for present associates is also offered for the 2022/23 period.
Merrily We Roll Together will entire the NYTW 2022/23 time. It joins the earlier declared productions of Anton Chekhov’s 3 Sisters, in a new adaptation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron (Dance Nation, You Obtained Older), directed by Tony Award winner and NYTW Typical Suspect Sam Gold (Othello, Exciting Home) american (tele)visions by Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares (Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall), directed by NYTW Typical Suspect Rubén Polendo () 2019 winner of the Yale Drama Prize, How to Protect By yourself by Liliana Padilla (Born 1000 Times), co-directed by Tony Award winner and NYTW Standard Suspect Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown), Padilla and Helen Hayes Award winner Steph Paul (The Last Match) and The Fifty percent-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams (Barber Store Chronicles).
Daniel Radcliffe stars this month in Paramount’s The Shed Town along with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. He just wrapped production on the Roku authentic film Strange: The Al Yankovic Story. His TBS series “Miracle Staff,” with Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan and Karan Soni was not too long ago picked up for a fourth year. Very last year the anthology comedy was set together the notorious Oregon Trail, with Radcliffe actively playing an idealistic tiny-city preacher. Radcliffe also executive provides. The second year, “Wonder Employees: Darkish Ages,” was set in the Medieval Time period and starred Radcliffe as the hapless Prince Chauncey desperately seeking to dwell up to his father’s (Peter Serafinowicz) substantial anticipations. The next period aired in 2020 whilst the first period, which saw Buscemi in the job of a weary God and Radcliffe as a small-degree angel, aired in 2019. 2020 also saw Radcliffe alongside Ellie Kemper and Jon Hamm in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,” in which he plays the position of Kimmy’s fiancé, Prince Frederick. The interactive exclusive starred Titus Burgess, Jane Krakowski and Carol Kane, and aired on Netflix in May perhaps 2020. Previously that yr Radcliffe returned to London’s West End starring in the part of Clov opposite Alan Cumming‘s Hamm in Samuel Beckett‘s Endgame at The Old Vic. The Beckett double bill, showcasing Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson, also noticed Radcliffe and Cumming star in Rough for Theatre II, with the two plays directed by Richard Jones. 2019 also saw the release of the genuine-existence jail break attribute Escape From Pretoria in which Radcliffe performed the purpose of Tim Jenkin. Shot on area in Australia, the film is dependent on Jenkin’s autobiography Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Jail. Radcliffe also starred in the comedic motion movie Guns Akimbo reverse Samara Weaving, playing Miles, a moderate-mannered online video activity developer who accidentally finds himself starring in his own serious-everyday living and violent movie video game.
