Broadway producer and director Harold Prince’s wife Judy kept “nagging” him to put on a musical about teenagers, so he brought George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1934 play, Merrily We Roll Along, to Stephen Sondheim for their next project. Kaufman and Hart’s play went backward in time and recounted in reverse the slow but steady personal decline of a famous, pretentious playwright. The creative team made the decisions to keep the time structure the same but to bring the story into the recent past and to cast teenagers and have them play these adult characters who gradually become younger.
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