This is an insightful, fascinating documentary about commitment to your dreams, the way those dreams change as you age, and what people sacrifice along the way. It will surely leave you humming the classic Sondheim songs but it also left me thinking about an unrelated Broadway standard (not by Stephen Sondheim) – A Chorus Line’s “What I Did For Love.” It’s directed by original cast member Lonny Price and he’s unearthed rare clips and reassembling the cast to examine the way the musical changed their lives.
This documentary is now playing in New York and LA and will expand to additional cities soon. The stars of the musical in 1981 and in 2016īEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENEDĪfter a string of Broadway classics and hits in the 1970s gay composer / genius Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” was a surprise flop in 1981, closing just sixteen performances into its run. It’s revealing, engaging, sometimes uncomfortable and leaves you with plenty to discuss with your friends or significant other once it’s over. It helps that both actors are talented and the sex scene is hot, but movies like this live or die by the conversation.
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A middle age graphic designer ( Lucas Near-Verbrugghe) and a free spirit whose also the man that got away ( Aaron Costa Ganis) 15 years earlier when they were new college graduates. It’s also a romantic two-hander that’s filled with engaging conversation.
This indie, available now on iTunes, has been labelled a ‘gay Before Sunrise’ and though that’s slightly misleading it’s not a bad comparison.