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see what happens if you don’t tell your crush you like them?? you become an alcoholic!!!!
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he’s goes 🎹 🎹🎹 and I go ⌨️ ⌨️⌨️and the phone goes 📞📞📞 and he goes mutter mutter mutter yes jerome mutter no jerome mutter mutter mutter mutter (that’s his lawyer jerome) sincerely lucky to have seen this on broadway and see this pro shot and get to be alive when this notorious flop turned into a sucess perfected!!!! the perfect tragedy that ends with one of the most hopeful songs in musical theater!! I love ART that is is unashamed to be ART about how you have to tend and water your friends!!! jonathan and lindsey and daniel made magic out of magic!!! steve sondheim if we weren’t both gay and you weren’t dead I would KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH
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look, sometimes things are made specifically for me. like, not everyone is going to enjoy almost three hours of jonathan groff on the precipice of tears while daniel radcliffe sings a patter song and lindsay mendez gives loaded looks to everyone. by the end of this movie, a regular person will be on their hands and knees using an ouiji board to converse with the dead and beg sondheim for a chorus. not me though! i loved it!
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Paul Mescal, Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein have enormous shoes to fill
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daniel radcliffe is just so dear to me i wanna put him in my pocket. he’s fantastic
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Amazing performances. My primary critique is how this filmed version is shot/directed: SO many close-ups, so few wide shots, no curtain call, no intermission, condensing of time, etc. it removes some of the stagy, theatrical trappings that I appreciate in a proshot. Yes, it’s amazing to be able to get closer to the actors’ faces or show different angles than we obviously could as an audience watching it live on stage. I’m not asking for a single camera on a tripod at the back of the auditorium (obviously), but I don’t need a filmed version to try to replicate a movie by hiding the stage; it’s a completely different beast. The filmed stage productions of Waitress and Hamilton are recent examples that do a better…
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I actually loved this, also watched it during choir my sophomore year of high school. I might be a hypocrite. I say I hate musicals but here we are. Its just some musicals I cant make myself sit down and watch all the way through. If that makes sense.
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i still don’t know what take a left is about
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Mmeriam 8 月 22, 2026
QUICK JEROME GET THE PRESIDENT
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big fan of Jonathan Groff lifting Daniel Radcliffe into the air like a toddler
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-.5 cause jonathan groffs face is everywhere
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I can’t wait for the Wario revival in 10 years with Beanie Feldstein, Ben Platt, and Noah Galvin
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one of my favorite musicals and this interpretation just feels so much more unforgiving, mean, and tragic in its comedy and treatment of characters. not to say it’s a bad thing—this story is at its best when the consequences are just so ugly, devastating, and immediately juxtaposed with a hyperactive, playful score that, like time, stops for no one. there’s so much great about this film but it’s ironically at its worst when it’s trying to be a movie. constant…
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Meant only to check out the first number or two to get an idea of how this production translates to the screen and accidentally watched the whole thing, which I guess is a tribute to how great it is. The show’s conceit is so inspired and inherently moving that I’m baffled it took this long for it to become a hit, although I guess most Broadway audiences looking to have a good time don’t want to experience the two-and-a-half hour…
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I fucking hate musicals. That being said, there were some aspects of this that I enjoyed. Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe were exceptional. Their chemistry and delivery were both on point. I did not enjoy Lindsey Mendez much but I did enjoy Reh Rogers. It was weird seeing knock-off Brian Daboll in this production and my friend and I laughed pretty much every time he was on screen. I am not an expert on technical stage functions but nothing stood…
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great way to close out my bday
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Watched once again, but this time paying special attention to the ensemble numbers in preparation for callbacks tomorrow (I’ll play Charley one day, just not this time). What a beautiful show. The hopeful (and tragic with the knowledge of what is to come) ending brings me to tears every damn time. Keeping my fingers crossed that I get to play either the guy who says “I wrote the screenplay to Frank’s new film” or the dude who raves about Charley’s Pulitzer.
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If they just ZOOMED OUT AND LET US VIEW LIKE AN AUDIENCE, this would have been 5 stars. Harry Potter and King George III should kiss. Steven Sondheim my worship my favourite the man the genius the legend
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I’m not a fan of the pro shot cinematography but still bangs
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All I can think of is Lady Bird
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WOWWWWWW so good!! have been neglecting the theatre roots for a while so it was great to feel this rushhhhhh so good. sondheim is on crack wtf. such a good cast. danny is so pookie. jonny so saliva-y
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I get wet…
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Χαίρομαι τόσο πολύ που ο Radcliffe έκανε τα Harry Potter γιατί πλέον μπορεί να παίζει ο,τι γουστάρει στο θέατρο. Ε τώρα βρέθηκε με Groff οπότε ήρθε κι έδεσε το γλυκό Απίστευτη και η Mendez που είναι το κρυφό highlight της παράστασης
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King George the 3rd and Harry Potter should have been gay
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This has to be studied in every college course on musical theatre globally, for this is a perfect musical. It’s so powerful that I’ll simply be enjoying the scene, totally locked in, then I’ll remember the beginning of the show and just start crying. And what pains me so much is that when they are young, all of them are truly great people. I think one of the most brilliant things about the show is how there isn’t one moment…
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god i love broadway !!!!!!!!! the acting was incredible and the vocals even better. what a story.
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My sincerest apologies to those behind the likes of Sunday in the Park with George, Hamilton, Into the Woods, West Side Story, Assassins, Ragtime and Cabaret, for I no longer would argue that your musical is the best I’ve seen. I feel quite comfortable giving that title to Merrily We Roll Along. Thank you I love this show more than my firstborn son (this is subject to change once he’s born)
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imagine my surprise finding out that this was recorded with me being a jonathan groff fan… I LOVED IT! (the interview scene with daniel radcliffe was fire btw)
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The best damn trio Broadway has ever seen
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not my favorite music/score (ironic ik) but i absolutely adoreeeee every actor/actress in this and the story structure is so good i can easily understand why this is a classic sondheim
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Atleast I didn’t cry for 2 hours straight this time
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beautiful! thanks sondheim i love you sondheim! this recording is kind of not great though. questionable cinematography throughout, and slightly strange audio mixing at the beginning. if i’m choosing to watch a proshot of a stage musical, i kind of want it to look like a proshot of a stage musical, not a film with limited angles and one-dimensional blocking… otherwise very beautiful and thought provoking
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daniel radcliffe🤝golden trios lindsay mendez🤝impossible vocals jonathan groff🤝sexy spitting also beth is SO funny!
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“don’t write what you know, write what you KNOW” radcliffe e surpinzator de bun what
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What if i sobbed over and over again what are you gonna do write a song about it
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i’d also become an alcoholic if jonathan groff didn’t want me
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company if bobby was evil
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A very much needed quarter life crisis kind of hopeful and devastatingly real musical. Daniel radcliffe youre a star in every way. Surprisingly stole the show from jonathan groff who i have a raging boner for (what is the opposite of queerbaiting???). Love lindsay but respectfully she was alright. Phenomenal chemistry but kind of forgettable songs with lyrics that are just slightly better other than daniel radcliffes incredible patter song that genuinely took my breath away.
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so awesome!! I’m gonna throw up Jonathan is so good at Looking. He masterfully combines Having Eyes and Having A Face and brings them together to Look. He expresses feelings that haven’t been discovered yet and sees sights as if sound has color. Can’t believe he invented eyeballs.
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NVM I FUCKING HATE YOU FRANK…!!!!! YOURE THE FUCKING PROBLEM!!!!!!!
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Llune 8 月 20, 2026
youtu.be/Lek6MZzvZEM?si=B44QpiOYyGqka-4S from maria friedman – he (stephen sondheim) was dismayed and heartbroken, often with tears rolling down his face saying “why doesn’t anybody understand, all I do is write love songs?”
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the only reason this isn’t half a star is for jonathan groff
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sondheims strongest score meets broadways strongest actors. this adaptation somehow made it work.
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Beautiful cinematography but THIS IS NOT A movie please show the whole stage sometimes or more than one thing at a time. Great musical overall 👍
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I sound fucking crazy but where the hell is Jonathan Groff’s spit while he’s singing? There are consistent cinematic-style closeups throughout this pro shot and not even a dribble? Did they edit it out? Is Groff singing in a way where he doesn’t spit but did so only for Merrily? This is very important to the theatre kid lore!
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WWilliam Strand 8 月 20, 2026
I really liked it! However, I had it hyped up so much for so long and idk if it really met the high expectations I had going in. Maybe I shall add a proper rating later idk
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I love to cry and sing
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first time watching or listening to this soundtrack in full wow oh wow it really got me!!!! love it when that happens!!!! sat for two and a half hours #IMPRESSED. the cast is just so phenomenal and i am so emotionally Affected by this one. sondheim always doing his damn thing
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Me, at the multiple Sondheim zingers in this show: help I’ve been shot
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I tell everything, then go home and suffer
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Mmegankanoelani 8 月 19, 2026
wanted it to be less focused on everyone’s face all the time I wanna see everyone move around the stage! great tho Dee kept being like this is sooo good
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Wish they didn’t try to film it like a movie and get rid of all the raw theater aspects of it (scene changes and intermission) but Sondheim is a genius and those three are giving unreal performances
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only a couple memorable songs but everyone in this is so talented i damn near started applauding on the airplane
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Short because it’s a day late, but the show goes like two numbers too long. And doesn’t really know how to end. But standout performances all around, and some truly heart-wrenching moments
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me n who..
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Llore en horario laboral
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expected more spit great performances but i think maybe this just isn’t my favorite musical in general
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i find this movie intriguing, its reverse chronological order shows the ending at the beginning which is sad because you go the whole movie it all works out and they all make up but you saw the ending you know they dont. its cool. lowk overstimulated me at times
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I liked it, but was also frustrated with it. You know those stories that end the way they do to be intellectual and “paint a picture of the real world”? Well this felt like that. And in reality, if you went from point A to point B the way these characters did, I would just feel sad for you.
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Como gravação de um musical não achei necessariamente tão bom, mas como musical é top então
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it’s (not) a hit
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je meurs pour jonathan groff
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I’m actually completely devastated.
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not to be dramatic but “don’t just write what you know 🧠, write what you know 🫀” fundamentally changed me as a writer/storyteller. i would do unspeakable things to have seen this in person !!!!
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This has the sauce
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we’re the movers 😭😭😭😭 and we’re the shapers😭😭😭😭😭 We’re the names in tomorrow’s papers😭😭😭😭 (making art with friends is the best thing in the world)
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JJesse 8 月 18, 2026
If I have learned anything from Blue Moon, this movie, and the life of Andrew Lloyd Webber, it’s that people who make musicals together be beefin’.
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I was unfamiliar with the show before watching this version, and it took me some time to invest in the characters who we meet at (generally) their *most* unlikeable. The reverse-chronology works incredibly well here, though. Forward, it’s a simple, often-told story. In reverse, it ends on a beautiful note of hope and love, which drives home the tragedy of the beginning (/ending) all more starkly.
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Critical Score: B- Personal Score: D The performances are good, though I personally can’t stand Groff (never have). The music is meh. The setting isn’t drawn out enough. The plot is incredibly boring and generic. The themes are run-of-the-mill. The backwards narrative isn’t all that interesting here, and it’s kind of the only remotely interesting thing about the whole show. I’m also just so rarely a fan of theatre, and this is very theatre theatre. Corny and self-absorbed. God, I…
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‘why do i have to be poor to write music?’ ‘because once you’re rich, you never will.’ this is not really my thing, no offense to anyone who likes this! i didn’t even watch the whole thing i just really wasn’t feeling it😭
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what people do for money and fame…damn. also rip stephen sondheim you would’ve loved memento (if he didn’t already see it before he died idk) side note for future: doing a triple feature with merrily, la la land, and tick tick boom would be DEVASTATING
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i tell everything, then go home and suffer i love jonathan groff’s voice so much & this trio was so (bitter)sweet Alphabet August 2026
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It’s just so beautifully crafted and I’m so glad that it was recognized
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Really awesome vocals. Great premise, moving backwards in time. A little hard to follow and didn’t leave me much altered.
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Real ones collaborate with their socks off
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I love that Daniel Radcliffe is a Broadway star This was a fun and interesting musical ! Sadly none of the songs stayed with me but the story was good
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Becoming famous and cutting off all my D1s the musical
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this is a sensitive subject for me
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AAvocado_Cheese 8 月 18, 2026
Watching a Sondheim musical live onstage would be genuinely life changing. But in the meantime — available to rent for just £1.99 on Prime Video.
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stephen sondheim is a genius and this musical is beautifully devastating. the entire concept is just so good
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Lowkey would sell my soul to have that saxophone part Only gripe is the pro shot feels removed from the theater a little too much but otherwise beautiful
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Somehow witnessed the magic of live theater on my computer screen in the airplane. Just wow
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my only reference point to this show is that crazy ass lady bird production #rollinggggalongggggg
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i love this show so so much. Watching a friendship fall apart in reverse makes the happy ending the most heartbreaking part. Sondheim really knew how to twist the knife.
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I really wish I’d watched this before seeing the hadestown pro shot so that I could give it the 5 stars it as a musical deserves, rather than take half a star off for the countless weird filming choices that were made. my sincerest apologies to merrily. I want to tackle daniel radcliffe like a human-sized teddy bear to hug but I fear that would crush the pastries in his jacket pockets
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mutter mutter mutter mutter yes jerome mutter no jerome mutter mutter mutter mutter that’s his lawyer jerome
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I’ve rewatched this probably 3X now… They saved merrily.
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Super star performances. Super effective and worthy of the packaging.
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“You don’t just write what you know, you write what you know” THE GASP I GUSPED Oh Sondheim, I love you!!!
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ok wow so now I’m crying. merrily has always been one of my favourite sondheim pieces by a mile and after watching a billion slime tutorials i finally found the pro shot (on youtube 🫣). daniel radcliffe is phenomenal and CAST HIM IN MORE MUSICALS!!! jonathan groff has always been so great but putting him in sondheim makes him greater and shows how truly great of an actor he is!!!!!
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RFK is canon to this 🙁
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Wonderful performances all around, would have been a 5 if the director weren’t allergic to wide shots
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I had no preconceived idea of what this was; but if Jonathan Groff is a flame, I am NOTHING if not a moth. I’d never seen Lindsay Mendez before this and now I’ll be watching everything she’s ever in, ever; and Harry Potter was there, too. No, but Daniel Radcliffe really surprised me. The boy who lived is truly living in this
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NNoah Peterson 8 月 17, 2026
I was so confused in the 1960 part
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Rren 🏔️🌟 8 月 17, 2026
aye bruh get it together king george 😭😩 nah but fr tho why did i wait so long to see this
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We gotta be the luckiest people who ever lived Sondheim really never missed with his charming explorations of modern relationships and fame. Feels more personal than some of his other works– Sunday in the Park with George comes to mind! Beautiful performances all around, beautiful score, beautiful set. I do wish it was filmed slightly differently, though; don’t get me wrong, this is a very high quality proshot! …But there’s too many closeups that ignore the larger image, quite literally,…
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daniel radcliffe as charlie kringis ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Cchloe 8 月 17, 2026
WORLDS TO CHANGE 😭😭 AND WORLDS TO WIN 😭😭😭😭 such a beautiful little musical, i’m a sucker for stories told out of order and these three make me so so sad but the ending (beginning?) is so unbelievably sweet. opening doors also remains one of my fav musical theater songs ever (typewriter percussion!!!)
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yeah just as good as it was the first time maybe better??
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barnard girls are dippy yes
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I always love a good Houston shoutout mid show.
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While I couldn’t really get invested in the story itself, and I’m realizing that Sondheim scores don’t really grab me that much (blasphemy, I know), the performances are good enough and the reverse-chronology premise is cool enough to hold my interest. Loved Radcliffe’s number in the TV interview scene
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losing half a star bc i never won the lottery for this show and therefore never got to see it
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I’m sure this was great on stage. Too bad, here, several characters seem to be directed for a completely different show. And it all feels disconnected. But Daniel Radcliffe is completely amazing. He can do no wrong.
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Extremely blessed I got to see this on Broadway with this cast, the cast is all amazing but Jonathan Groff’s performance and range is what ties the entire thing together. Very glad this was filmed for others to enjoy and not simply in the movie adaptation way which might end up being good but wouldn’t give people a chance to watch the talent and chemistry that this cast shares. That being said I do feel like the direction for film…
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The last 15 minutes were great, the rest of the show I didn’t like at all Of course everything Jonathan Groff does is perfect
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I really like this musical! Everyone’s performance was enjoyable and the music is really catchy. I stand by my original statement though, I don’t like this pro shot. The lighting was throwing me off and the random close up I just felt like they were so unnecessary. Other then that though I enjoyed it and the soundtrack will continue to have its rounds around.
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a story doomed from the start as it pretty much tells you hey we’re gonna fuck u up by going back in time and ur gonna watch it…! but also doomed from the very start of their young innocent lives (being so brave and bold enough to dream big)
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dare i say i didn’t care for it
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BROADWAY DO MORE PROSHOTS I BEG
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fantastic for theater kids and also fantastic for all of the transmascs who get gender envy from daniel radcliffe in glasses. we have a new non-evil source to get it from folks!!!!
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Sstellalyons 8 月 13, 2026
Evelyn reveal
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I love this musical so much I’m gonna miss my friends
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Watched this on an overnight long haul flight so probably not the best scenario, was very excited about it tho bc I’d never found it on streaming anywhere before but I didn’t really get it… it just was kinda sad to me and no real resolution. Maybe I need to give it another go when less tired. Stellar cast tho!
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Boy, I do appreciate this. I really hope I don’t have to wait for half of my life for the movie.
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merrily we mutter along
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That last shot! It gets me every time!
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One of the best musicals I have ever scene. The chemistry of the actors perfectly sell the story of three old friends over the course of 20 bumpy years. I don’t typically cry at movies/musicals however whenever I decide to rewatch this masterpiece I will always find myself sniffling.
- Synopsis
- Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
- Director
- Maria Friedman
- Writer
- George Furth, Stephen Sondheim
- Studio
- RadicalMedia, Sonia Friedman Productions, No Guarantees Productions, Chocolate Factory Productions
- Country
- USA, UK
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 145 mins
- USA12 Oct 2025
- China22 Mar 2026
- China16 Apr 2026
- UK04 Dec 2025
- USA05 Dec 2025
- Canada09 Jan 2026
- Australia04 Dec 2025
- Netherlands14 May 2026
- USA20 Jan 2026
- Israel05 Feb 2026
- USA04 Apr 2026
- USA03 Mar 2026
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