Merrily We Roll Along

Original Broadway Cast

1982: Sony BMG 82879-68637-2


  1. Overture
  2. The Hills of Tomorrow
    Merrily We Roll Along (1980)
    Rich and Happy
  3. Merrily We Roll Along (1979–1975)
    Old Friends
    Like It Was
  4. Merrily We Roll Along (1974–1973)
    Franklin Shepard, Inc
  5. Old Friends
  6. Not a Day Goes By
  7. Now You Know
  8. It’s a Hit!
  9. Merrily We Roll Along (1964–1962)
    Good Thing Going
  10. Merrily We Roll Along (1961–1960)
    Bobby and Jackie and Jack
  11. Not a Day Goes By
  12. Opening Doors
  13. Our Time
  14. The Hills of Tomorrow
     

    Bonus Tracks

  15. It’s a Hit [Stephen Sondheim]
  16. Not a Day Goes By [Bernadette Peters]
From Tony Lang’s The Gay Cliché (Or How to Be a Homosexual Guy and Still Maintain Some Slight Degree of Individuality) (St Martins Press, New York, 1985), page 36, Three Stephen Sondheim Rules, #2:
“Don’t have a theory about how Merrily We Roll Along could have worked. And don’t love the cast album. Don’t even know that it was recorded.”

From Adrienne Onofri’s September 2007 interview with Ann Morrison (the original Mary):

Do you listen to the cast album?
For years I could not; it was so painful. We recorded the album the day after we closed. I think one of the reasons that album is so popular and so magnificent is you can hear the pain and the sadness. You can really feel the emotion that is there. Now I can listen to it, with a tremendous amount of heart around it. The wounding’s gone.

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