The only thing sadder than this moment in "Merrily" is "Merrily" itself.
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"Row, Row, Row Your Boat," Anonymous I have been collecting different versions in book form of this simple song: Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream Live life gently and merrily.
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Like "Merrily," it's contemplative and structurally bold; unlike "Merrily," it conveys no wistfulness for the way it was.
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Merrily, Merrily, Merrily: Poets on the best-seller list remain as rare as albino deer, but one who does turn up from time to time is the former poet laureate Billy Collins, whose latest collection, "The Rain in Portugal," lands at No. 15 on the hardcover fiction list.
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"I just want to keep on merrily going," Windhorst said.
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The waltzes swung along merrily, but with less amiable undertows, too.
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"I was made by children in Hunan!" the gun merrily sings.
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"Here we are!" cried Mistress Brandon merrily, coming into the room.
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"Merrily" can't really reach its potential by superimposing that later approach.
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In the 1920s, the Jews of both cities live safely, even merrily.
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The party would merrily dump Congress after the vote, if need be.
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Cabinet ministers openly defy her and backbenchers merrily do their own thing.
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The crowd merrily applause him and the hip-hop is turned down.
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"Merrily" is the seventh production announced by Roundabout for its upcoming season.
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They all merrily follow Ms. Ford into the cult of bright white.
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A Ferris story can merrily pave the way from bad to worse.
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People are drinking merrily, hitting on each other, and tearing into delicious food.
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Soon you'll be merrily chatting with friends, oblivious to the din around you.
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Miranda, incidentally, starred in a production of Merrily We Roll Along in 2012.
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He brought round beer and cider which we drank merrily, chatting about memories.
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So, the point is, we have had peaceful prosperity, life went merrily on.
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The remaining one chirps merrily whenever I hit a patch of rough road.
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" This escapes the radio host, who merrily responds, "Well, no two Thanksgivings are alike.
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And I made him watch the Merrily We Roll Along documentary … and one day I came back from whatever I was doing and I had 10 texts from him and it was like, 'Beanie, I love [Merrily We Roll Along composer Stephen] Sondheim.
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Her severed feet follow her around, still merrily dancing inside the red shoes, taunting her.
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But before we all merrily rush to judgment, let's pause to consider a few things.
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Miranda is taking his cue here from Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, he writes.
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"She has to be a New England kind of hoochie woman," he said, riffing merrily.
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As we roll merrily into the future of media it's time to define some terms.
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Well, they're exactly what they sound like — insert cat in pack, merrily wear on back.
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On a recent afternoon when I visited Schumer there, several logs were burning away merrily.
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Herrera burst into a soft laugh and merrily glided away, clearly pleased with her joke.
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" MULANEY "Going Up," the last song, is a bit more like "Merrily We Roll Along.
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The movie just merrily speeds us past this — hoping, I guess, that we won't notice.
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With COVR Photo, you can look like you're merrily texting away, when you're really taking photos.
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It's also crucial to understanding Hal Prince's shows, such as Cabaret and Merrily We Roll Along.
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In Charleston, residents decorate their boats with lights and merrily sail them down the city's waterways.
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Once, I fell down a hill, and a running woman pointed, laughed, and jogged merrily away.
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And Google search skipped merrily along, at worst experiencing a barely perceptible slowdown in returning results.
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So it's quite the pantomime dance that DeepMind and Google have been merrily leading everyone on.
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Of course, Pence is no George H.W. Bush, merrily twinkling with a thousand points of light.
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The Avengers saga may have ended, but the Marvel hype train continues to chug merrily along.
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When it's merrily burning away, gradually add the firewood, starting with the smaller pieces first. 9.
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Their ballpark locomotive, which clangs merrily above left field after every big hit, has been rolling.
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Initially, I thought of Naugle as the Pied Piper of doubters, merrily guiding Mormons into digital sin.
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Hard-core Brexiteers in the Tories and Mr Corbyn's keenest supporters in Labour merrily stoke these feelings.
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So airlines have merrily shrunk seat pitches and withdrawn perks and still managed to fill their flights.
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Merrily We Roll Along, as chronicled by the documentary, is a curious case of life imitating art.
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More than 22 years later, Carey is still merrily belting out the festive tune for anyone who asks.
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One old woman was photographed puffing merrily on a cigarette, an activity punishable with prison in the "caliphate".
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There is an ice sculpting competition, free hot chocolate and folks merrily ringing cowbells along the race courses.
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That mantle has been merrily picked up by its creative designer, Peter Dundas, now in his third season.
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There he was, this strange, terrifying specter—part clown, part boogieman—prancing around merrily in his grainy underworld.
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Though quickly shuttered, Merrily We Roll Along gradually assumed legendary status, becoming one of Sondheim's most beloved musicals.
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But since becoming the nominee-apparent, the Donald has merrily marched on down a path that marginalizes him.
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The original stage production of Merrily We Roll Along debuted in 1981 and ran for just 16 performances.
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" Expectations were especially high because "Merrily" was the follow-up to Mr. Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's "Sweeney Todd.
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I roared loudly at everyone and began cackling to myself after each drink, swearing merrily all the while.
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The new home secretary merrily tramples on the prime minister's target of getting net migration below 100,000 a year.
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Poles have merrily tweeted about the "prices" of "products" that sound suspiciously like political parties since at least 2011.
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" He also claimed: "Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting.
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Some of the Dubliners whose freedom they're fighting for take advantage of the chaos to merrily loot and vandalize.
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To get you merrily on your way to embracing the middle of things, we've got 15 non-matronly midis.
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I was at the first and last performance of 'Merrily We Roll Along' in its original production on Broadway.
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"Two weeks ago, Italians were merrily sipping wine and coffee at bars and restaurants," Cotton added in his statement.
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At the end of his remarks to the press, Cameron was caught by a television microphone singing, seemingly merrily.
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The merrily nihilistic Frenchman strewed the first half of the twentieth century with the aesthetic equivalent of whoopee cushions.
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The way the book (by Mr. Haimsohn and Mr. Miller) merrily hopscotches from cliché to cliché can still raise smiles.
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The world isn't there to help him process his confusion, it just adds to it, and keeps rolling merrily along.
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Players in Indonesia have been merrily posting their Pokémon sightings to social media, as interest heats up in the country.
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It was Lake Como in 113, and his aristocratic friends were sketching merrily with the aid of a camera obscura.
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People who know musical theater know that Merrily We Roll Along was one of the greatest flops in Broadway history.
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If all goes well, Merrily We Roll Along should hit theaters sometime around 2040, assuming the Earth still exists then.
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"Merrily," which is based on a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, features a book by George Furth.
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Little Eufreaka looked like Eureka's just-surgically-freed conjoined twin, and they bopped about merrily in matching lashes and loaves.
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November 218, 221: Stephen Sondheim's musical "Merrily We Roll Along" opens on Broadway, closing after a disastrous 8-performance run.
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As in other recent performances, she has suddenly bloomed into a marvelously free personality: adult, decisive, engagingly robust, merrily witty.
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Not Ms. Waight Keller, and certainly not John Galliano at Maison Margiela, who has been merrily rewriting all the rules.
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" An earlier version of this review misstated the number of years since the Broadway opening of "Merrily We Roll Along.
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The bottom line: Epstein abused children, ruining dozens or even hundreds of lives while consorting merrily with his plutocratic friends.
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There are no tickets and no assigned seats; the audience filters in piecemeal and chatters merrily until the production begins.
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Airy puffs of pastry enfold bits of fish and slices of caramelized apples that crunch and crackle merrily inside my head.
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The gods then revel in Baldur's newfound resilience, performing all manner of violence to his body that Baldur merrily shrugs off.
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If you merrily skip through the dialogue, you're missing a good chunk of what Uncharted 4 is trying to offer you.
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"I'm hiding!" she explained the next day, merrily re-enacting her acrobatics inside the lobby of the Le Meridien Hotel here.
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"Merrily" is a show whose score and premise are too good to disregard but whose book seems to resist successful staging.
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But when Merrily failed, it was a bitter lesson that that things don't always pan out, despite hard work and talent.
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At the core of "Stay on It" (1973) is a bright, relentless riff over which a vocalist merrily sings the title.
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We're what we disown, including the sexism, racism, jingoism and other ugliness to which Trump and his enablers merrily play midwife.
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Critic's Notebook One of the most powerful men in European theater was flat on his back, merrily pedaling in the air.
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Suddenly, I was in a Buso sandwich and the two jumped up and down merrily for a moment before releasing me.
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"I've seen Aedes aegypti merrily breeding in discarded soda caps," said Joseph M. Conlon, technical adviser to the American Mosquito Control Association.
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While the first season merrily exploits the tension inherent in a forced, accelerated, and intercultural courtship, the stakes are still relatively low.
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Meanwhile, Zinke's new pro-trophy hunting committee has rolled merrily forward, in complete disregard of the president's stated abhorrence of trophy hunting.
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Musically, Ms. Ebersole is a freewheeling time traveler whose affection for operetta and vaudeville allows her to hopscotch merrily through the decades.
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I enjoyed Mr. Pinkham rather more as the merrily murderous Englishman in "Gentleman's Guide," but his singing is superb here as there.
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The commercial shows a king and a queen at a jousting event, merrily drinking Bud Lights and cheering on the Bud Knight.
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She listened to one after another, singing merrily along, as though she were completely innocent, as though nothing at all had happened.
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China's harshest internal critics have always been silenced by authoritarian powers but King gives us a China where some critics can merrily escape.
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They at least didn't use the code of "apolitical" while merrily planting their lil' rune flag in the territory of aesthetics and beauty.
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This novelistic homage to "Frankenstein" weaves together the life of its author, Mary Shelley, and a merrily slapstick plot set in the present.
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The clamor of bells, bumpers and flippers batting steel balls echoing merrily off the walls creates a near constant buzz in the space.
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So while I can't say I'm skipping along merrily, I understand that this is important work and we're going to play a part.
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But for wheat farmers, he explains, as his dogs merrily give chase to a passing flock of emus, it is not so easy.
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" Mr. Rivkin then merrily downed an oyster, pinkie in the air, and called his new position "possibly the best job in the world.
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The case includes wireless charging technology, enabling you to just plonk your phone down on a charger pad, and it'll merrily charge away.
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No matter what people thought of him, they wanted to ogle him, and he'll be merrily monetizing that for some time to come.
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He claimed that reporters had actually spotted the first lady last week "walking merrily along to a meeting" and did not report it.
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Once, an employee who was preparing to quit hopped onto the fulfillment center's conveyor belt and rode it merrily through the entire facility.
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The class clowns who merrily threw spitballs at New York's artistic landscape three decades ago are now, in more ways than one, seniors.
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But it has certainly exposed a cultural tension: the "workers by brain" merrily denounce the "workers by hand" as idiots, bigots, xenophobes and racists.
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The show's currently airing fourth season merrily hops genres to tell a story about damaged people trying to find a way to be whole.
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The French, merrily ignorant of most of their pronouncements, continue to liker posts from Facebook friends and bruncher with their real-world friends regardless.
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Filipe Nyusi, the president, merrily went ahead with a state visit to the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) the day after the storm hit.
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As everyone skips around in pink and red merrily clutching their bouquets, you might start wishing that you considered someone other than chardonnay bae.
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According to a recent Washington Post story, smugglers have been merrily sawing their way through the thing using power tools that are commercially available.
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In Nairobi, Kenya, I was amazed to see a 3D-printing business set up on a street corner, merrily printing everyday objects for passersby.
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Paul began as a drummer on "Follies" in 1970, and has conducted nine Sondheim shows, including the original "Merrily We Roll Along," in 1981.
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Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 musical, "Merrily We Roll Along," closed after just sixteen performances on Broadway, but its afterlife has been long.
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Every few minutes, a gawker from the street would come in and scoop up a handful of fake bills, exclaiming merrily as he did.
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Unsure of his motives, we took a step back, watching transfixed as he dropped anchor and then began to merrily ring a loud bell.
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There, she and her siblings rode horses, played merrily in the fields and orchards, and took fiendish glee in torturing a series of governesses.
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You haven't really arrived in the City of Angels until you've eaten on its hallowed patio strung with merrily winking rainbow-colour fairy lights.
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ARTS A theater review on Tuesday of "Merrily We Roll Along" misstated how long it has been since the Broadway opening of the musical.
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By the time that he was 2, he had learned to hold his head up, sit, grab a set of keys and jingle them merrily.
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"Look at young Simbi in Vogue/Look at young Simbi in Forbes," she says in the video, merrily skating through the streets of Los Angeles.
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And the Twelve aren't just going to let Villanelle merrily look for Eve — whom she now refers to as her "girlfriend" — without hunting her down.
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Phoebe sighed and buried her face in a hand, peeping between her fingers out at the laptop, the swarm of light points dancing merrily away.
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Oftentimes it feels as though art satisfies itself by "raising the question" or "complicating ideas" about a subject, and then rolling merrily on its way.
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When Merrily We Roll Along premiered on Broadway in 1981, everyone, including its cast of bright young unknowns, expected it to be a smash hit.
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"I have to introduce the President of Estonia," he said merrily, crabbing a hand through his strawberry-blond hair, which stuck out in several directions.
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They shared videos of people rolling their eyes and waving their hands dismissively, and of men in beards and thobes merrily dancing to traditional drumbeats.
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Democrats have long said that Republicans don't really care about fiscal prudence and sure enough, they've merrily added a trillion dollars to the national debt.
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We could have had fun with this merrily foulmouthed band of past-their-prime carnival workers, tootling along Southern back roads in a decrepit van.
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The animals are roaring, the workers are revolting, and Burton has merrily turned what could have been another remake into something genuinely different and surprising.
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Though neither of these concepts is explicit in the document, the teenage Ms. Schreck merrily interprets them as prime examples of the framers' brilliant modesty.
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The two actors are set to star in Richard Linklater's adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Merrily We Roll Along looks to be an even more ambitious production (to say nothing of the fact that it'll also be a full musical).
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" Note the ambiguous ending of that nursery rhyme, though: Sure, you can row your boat merrily, yet in the end, "life is but a dream.
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When He chooses, our Lord changes that sound into the voice of a dove, and then into a robin redbreast, tweeting merrily in her ear.
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What they do not include, however: a portrait, or even a quick snap, of the first lady beaming merrily (or not) amid the glittering greenery.
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Customers merrily spending their morning at a local establishment in Chantilly, north of Paris, were rudely interrupted by a young bucking horse around 230 a.m.
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At T-Mobile, Mr. Legere was known for slashing prices, introducing new mobile plans and merrily calling out rivals Verizon, AT&T and even Sprint.
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As I look across the restaurant, by now completely full and bubbling merrily with the chatter of midday eating, I realise something: I'm not alone.
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Ten days later, Polanski was photographed in West Germany, merrily puffing on a cigar and quaffing beer, with his arm slung around a pretty young blonde.
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But when Simone joins in and they merrily rip up this stunning $300 arrangement (price adjusted for inflation), I just sat back and cried cartoon tears.
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Jerry Brown also spoke at the announcement, and he compared the world to the passengers on the Titanic who were merrily dining while the iceberg approached.
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It was provocative and uncomfortable at times — a needed bump to a night that merrily rolled along without a single side-eye from Prince or otherwise.
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As I walked behind them, I realized they weren't heading towards any nearby subway stop, and I was probably merrily marching towards one of their apartments.
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His dreams may have included jogging merrily across a sun-dappled Ponte Vecchio, but it ended up pouring the whole time, on runners and spectators alike.
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On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy.
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Her most vicious detractors sit behind her during votes in Parliament and then tour television and radio studios merrily denouncing her the rest of the time.
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But the ultimate carrier of the torch is Mr. Price, who in 2002 helped organize a triumphant concert production of "Merrily" that reunited the original cast.
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Pawan Poojary, 19, merrily duped Americans through phone-scams, partly for the sheer joy of deceiving people who "considered themselves superior to the rest of the world".
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" Minutes after his first tweet, President Trump added on Wednesday that: "Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting.
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The lady at the forest's guest center nonchalantly keeps corpses in the basement, schoolgirls skip merrily through the death trap like lost ensemble members from Suicide Club.
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Near the end, at a rally, Keena takes the microphone and merrily informs the crowd, with a smile, that they have nothing to lose but their chains.
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They probably would've had to reshoot some scenes, which would explain the thirteen visits, and the $67k would've come bouncing merrily out of Eddie McGuire's fat pocket.
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Unlike "Crazy Rich Asians," which merrily hopscotched among Singapore and Hong Kong and London, Basu's novel is set primarily in a velvet-upholstered enclave of New Delhi.
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Ever since producer Jerry Bruckheimer tweeted a photo with Tom Cruise earlier this year, rumours of a Top Gun sequel have been swirling merrily around the internet.
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This is the fertile ground on which bad actors today are merrily scattering the seeds of doctored videos, bogus memes, political slurs and other species of misinformation.
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Yet in order to whip up the cheers of the AfD's grassroots, they merrily bluster about Muslims (the party's electoral programme declares Islam un-German) and evil elites.
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Burying self-referential allusions in the background and merrily poking viewers till they bruise, The Square at times feels more like longform performance art than a narrative film.
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The video itself is a bright spot of joy, even when coupled with a tacky hamster cartoon that bounces merrily over the captions of Perry's dread-filled lyrics.
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And you can't believe it, and you've changed inside and you're better and stronger and calmer and more fun than you were before you journeyed merrily in2 hell.
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Yet banks still use unreliable asset pricing models; households remain at the mercy of aggregate booms and busts; and Social Security continues to glide merrily toward its doom.
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Cable operators and networks enjoyed gross margins of 2000-240% and merrily pushed new gear, such as digital video recorders, and still more channels towards their loyal customers.
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As it turned out, "Merrily" was a mess: the story was muddled (though the score remains beloved), audiences left in droves, and the show closed in twelve days.
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If you mainly know "Merrily" 's music, it may startle you to realize, watching this performance, that you also already know the characters as intimately as you can.
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Bolt is playful and brash, mugging for the cameras, pounding his chest and merrily reminding his frustrated opponents of their lot in life during and after the racing.
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Feldstein recently joined the cast of Merrily We Roll Along, the Stephen Sondheim movie musical adaptation director Richard Linklater plans to film over the course of 20 years.
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Brisbane By Cecile Blackmore I was riding the 345 through the northern Brisbane suburbs, my fat sack of groceries bouncing merrily on the vacant seat next to me.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Fiasco Theater, which presented a stripped-down "Into the Woods" for the Roundabout Theater Company in 2015, turns to another bittersweet Stephen Sondheim musical.
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The merrily dance-packed third movement is led by three other dancers: Andrei Chagas and Shimon Ito with either Jeanette Delgado (Friday evening) or Jennifer Lauren (Saturday evening).
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Roving musicians played norteño music for a few dollars a song, a tuba honking merrily over the thud of speakers set up in the back of pickup trucks.
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On the evidence of its umpteenth unsatisfactory revisal, which opened on Tuesday at the Laura Pels Theater, I'm sorry to say that it's still not "Merrily"'s time.
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Whether this is a coincidence or it's just Michele trolling us ever so merrily in the spirit of the holidays, the resemblance is uncanny — and the numbers don't lie.
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They start spinning to generate power at wind speeds of approximately 22019 mph, and from there, run merrily along until wind speeds approach that of a strong tropical storm.
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The Mountaineers inched ahead at 21-20 on Ahmed's layup with 3:55 left and later merrily rushed off the court after Carter's dramatic toss leading into the break.
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And, in a funny twist, it's the large, serious pieces that allow her to make the lamps and candlesticks: "The couture pays for the commercial work," she says merrily.
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Along the way, in and out of drag, contestants design and make their own dresses, spackle on their own makeup and merrily talk trash about, and to, one another.
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Lochte could have learned a lot from Phelps's example, but then, he has spent over a decade merrily building his reputation as the antithesis of the disciplined, hyperfocused Phelps.
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It can be alarming, if you're not accustomed to such things or are attuned to the news, to hear your darlings shouting so merrily about head shots and snipes.
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In one scene she splashes merrily in a bubble bath, pregnant and happy—the viewer is delighted to imagine that the baby is ours, and she is our wife.
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For more than four hours, Mr. McCain stood at a craps table, merrily placing bets and rolling the dice as he occasionally paused to take a selfie with admirers.
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But where there is a rule, there is a rule breaker, and Ruth Bloomfield Margolin returns to describe one of the rules and then merrily dash it to pieces.
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Because "Merrily" was a musical about the ravages of time on friendship and youthful ideals, the documentary tells parallel stories — one fictional, the other real — of disappointment and disillusion.
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In recent years, the merrily vulgar Mr. Grillo has stepped back so that a new generation of less rough, but perhaps no less radical, young politicians could step forward.
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Check out our staff's collection of clashing colors as we merrily move around the office in goofy garb ... spreading Christmas cheer and Hanukkah happiness (the donuts provided certainly help).
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She's trapped in the trunk of a car, and we actually meet her captors first as they drive merrily on their way convinced they've solved their Dex Parios problem.
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Maybe it never will be — and I speak as someone who'd gladly patronize a dedicated "Merrily" repertory theater, perhaps on that rooftop, running nothing but reworked versions in perpetuity.
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Oh OK, I didn't because it's probably made up, but I do highly approve of a traditional carb 'n' fat-based Latin dish getting merrily thwacked into a corn straitjacket.
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All right, Kat, why is that no matter what the controversy there is, Trump just kind of rolls merrily on in the numbers and the numbers kind of go up?
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Inside the walls, life seems almost normal as workers shuttle resources from mills and farms to their depots, walking down streets lined by rows of cottages, lit merrily from within.
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Image: DJIDrones flying over crowds are not normally a good mix—if there's anywhere you don't want four blades merrily spinning, it's in the middle of a group of people.
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I'd originally been planning to spend a weekend merrily cutting out the shapes of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island from the various circuit boards with a hacksaw.
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I'm used to the sensation of feeling bass in my chest, which obviously cannot be recreated with a matchbox-sized piece of plastic that's merrily buzzing away on your wrist.
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In 0003, after her husband died, Merrily Hardisty decided she no longer needed the space or the maintenance hassles of their four-bedroom house in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb.
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On his first day, he merrily insults classmates and teachers for not adhering to the school's handbook, winning the ire of all those around him, which he does not notice.
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Boyhood director Richard Linklater is making an adaptation of the classic Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along, which is set to star Ben Platt, Blake Jenner, and Beanie Feldstein.
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"Best Worst Thing" could never have been made without the discovery of tapes for an ABC television special about the making of "Merrily" that was shelved after the musical fizzled.
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The actress happily had her shirt off at the gym — a logical post-workout development — and was merrily sweating it out when an incredibly fit woman walked into the room. Bam.
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If you need any better proof that we're all now living in a dystopia, merrily celebrating the instruments of our own planetary demise, Fiji Girl is your meme of the moment.
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It maneuvers like a greased pig, sliding out of the grasp of those who would like to hold it up as egregious, and runs along merrily, dodging responsibility all the while.
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After about half a million years—far less time than the billions of years the real planets have been merrily chugging along—the TRAPPIST-1 planets' circular orbits become more elliptical.
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As the cowboy crooner Hobie Doyle, a Western actor shoehorned into a prim drawing-room comedy called "Merrily We Dance" (another film within the film), he made off with entire scenes.
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In Trouble Every Day (2001), she fools us into sympathy with two innocent-looking lead actresses, before one of them merrily rips the flesh from a man's neck with her teeth.
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But I suspect he would have been surprised to learn that more than 60 years later, progressives in charge of educating San Francisco's children are merrily following this un-American playbook.
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Lawmakers have merrily continued to cut taxes while increasing spending, widening the federal deficit and adding more every year to the crushing national debt that we pass on to our children.
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It will never recreate that summer morning for me and every time I bring up a new Zelda game I long for that squeaking green top-down figure bopping merrily across Hyrule.
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To chronicle the 1960s he developed a bizarre prose style that merrily broke all the rules of good writing, littering the page with capital letters, exclamation marks, italics and single-sentence paragraphs.
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I'd decided to judge a pasta sauce contest at the Great Italian Festival in Reno, Nevada, and the sight of so many families merrily stirring away made me more homesick than ever.
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Twin Temple's sultry, Satanic midcentury doo-wop is red in tooth and claw, drawing liberally from early rock 'n roll's sonic swing while merrily subverting the traditional societal norms that birthed it.
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This feature was straightforwardly fun, with the vibrations on full intensity shaking me about quite merrily, while the lower settings were gentle pulses (which you can even use as an alarm clock).
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It's a warm-hearted and rueful documentary that looks back at all the hopes raised and dreams dashed as Merrily rolled its way to an early grave, and now it's on Netflix.
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Celebratory balloons had been strung from the rafters at Nirmal Hriday Home for the Dying Destitute, and they bounced around merrily under the overhead fans while nuns sang hymns in reedy voices.
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But Ms. Bouder, five months after giving birth, was back in characteristically impish, merrily vulgar, twinkling form; if she doesn't yet have all her former speed, she still has enough to dazzle.
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We asked Wayne why he missed his debut in "Merrily We Roll Along" Wednesday night, and he told us -- despite rumors of a more serious injury -- it was something way more embarrassing.
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I was one of the few to see the original production of "Merrily We Roll Along," which opened on Broadway in 353 and, having received mostly catastrophic reviews, closed after 16 performances.
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"Merrily" has enjoyed many lives and many productions since 1981, and is now considered by many critics to be a major work hindered by structural challenges and blessed with a great score.
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I was able to do all this—running wild through the halls of various beliefs that weren't my own, merrily interviewing everyone in sight—because nobody much cared that I was there.
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As long as Keith keeps talking about the influence of the blues on the Rolling Stones, the earth will continue to spin merrily and revolve in a timely manner around the sun.
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Tallahassee, Florida (CNN)In a small studio in the bowels of the Florida Lottery headquarters building in Tallahassee, two little tornadoes of balls bounce merrily around inside two blinking bright blue machines.
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Say what you will about the original production, with its just-turned-professional cast and bizarre costume concept, but I found that "Merrily" more coherent and moving than any I've seen since.
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Even knowing full well that the hot dog is an easy analog for, say, a human finger, something about the way it floats merrily along to these chill-ass jams is incredibly relaxing.
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Jason Alexander was twenty when he got what he thought was his big break, a role in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's new Broadway musical "Merrily We Roll Along," directed by Hal Prince.
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The music director, Alexander Gemignani (the son of "Merrily" 's original music director, Paul Gemignani), has provided new arrangements and orchestrations that are played by an eight-member ensemble, hidden behind the set.
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My mind, on the other hand, can manage only a few key words before it charges merrily toward free association: Bitcoin, blockchain, key chain, chain of fools, fools rush in, Salma Hayek, etc.
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He appeared in more than 21975 films and television series, among them "Bewitched," the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "The Gong Show," where his job was to merrily scatter confetti.
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" When the artist and musician Billy Childish explained in a 2019 episode that he rarely goes to art world parties, for example, Mr. Tovey merrily asserted, "You're bringing the party to Talk Art.
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Because to let him behave that way — he even sent out a fund-raising solicitation during a pause in the hearing — and then go merrily on his way is to look pathetically weak.
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Harper merrily swears like a sailor, yells in all caps, and keeps the focus on the gelatinous lump in your head: It's not you, it's the way trauma affects your fucked-up brain.
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The shows that fail to solve this problem (1970's Company, 1981's Merrily We Roll Along) have beautiful scores, and given a charismatic lead and a halfway decent book they're interesting shows.
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Swaddled in a bright-orange fleecelike jumpsuit covered by a red coat and topped with a fur hat, he looks like an animated toy, and merrily acts the clown when playing with a snowman.
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Willis also shows a video, "Black Righteous Space (Southern Edition)" (2012), where the pattern of a Confederate battle flag in African colors dances around merrily whenever a microphone in the theater picks up sound.
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"WE ARE FAMILY!" blared the loudspeakers, as the grandees of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), merrily marched on stage in Münster on April 27th.
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As lights flashed and guests danced merrily inside an English wedding hall, Noor felt she might finally be free to live her life as a lesbian, since her new husband was a gay man.
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In her 2008 smash hit, Juno, the closing scene sees our teenage heroine (Ellen Page) merrily pedal up to her boyfriend (Michael Cera) but a few shots after giving their newborn up for adoption.
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Sitting in the front row, Penny was rapt during a bit poking fun at different kinds of author photos, laughing merrily at a shot of a jovial guy wearing a book like a hat.
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Alex grew up to sing John Hinckley in "Assassins," at the Roundabout, in 2004—"Dad conducted"—and orchestrated and arranged the current version of "Merrily," which opened at the Laura Pels Theatre last month.
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"I first met Marin when she was 24 and came in to audition for a production of 'Merrily We Roll Along' at La Jolla Playhouse," Mr. Lapine recalled in an email interview on Thursday.
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A beautiful woman waits for him on dark street corners, her anklets adorned with bells that jingle merrily, until you notice that her feet are reversed and she speaks through her nose, he explained.
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According to a new report from Collider, Linklater's next multi-year film project will be an adaptation of the Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along and will take, yes, two entire decades to complete.
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Merrily We Roll Along is a musical that depicts the lives of three friends: Franklin Shepard, a Broadway composer; Charley Kringas, a lyricist who partners with Frank; and Mary Flynn, a writer and critic.
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SamsungPhoto: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Samsung continues to merrily plow its own furrow in the smartwatch space, which probably annoys Google quite a bit, as the Galaxy wearables are consistently well designed and slick to use.
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Mr. Sheen and, especially, Mr. Waterston overact merrily as Robert and Sol, whom you can imagine as Chandler and Ross from "Friends" finally openly embracing their sexuality 40-some years after viewers had met them.
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The Kit-Cat Classic Black wall clock has been making people crack a smile since 1932, with a wagging tail, contagious grin, and eyes that merrily move back and forth — all while keeping the time.
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Craig Lucas, the playwright who wrote "Prelude to a Kiss," said that Mr. Cruz's speech reminded him of a cringe-inducing scene in "Merrily We Roll Along," a musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.
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"Merrily," adapted from George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1934 play, traces, in reverse chronology, the friendship between Mary Flynn, a writer; Frank Shepard, a composer and producer; and Shepard's collaborator Charley Kringas, a lyricist.
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" Colorful writing: "An unwelcome breeze played merrily, but frigidly, around the gaunt limbs in the press box eyrie, and shivering creatures thought lovingly and longingly of the 'woolen ones' reposing in bureau drawers at home.
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They have merrily gone along with harmful economic policies, including tax cuts that will add at least $1 trillion to government debt when the economy is doing well and needs no help from the government.
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For the sprightly, laughing Southerner is literally 'frightened to death' by lightning, and it must have been small comfort to see a telephone pole a block away struck by a bolt and burning merrily away.
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In the case of one of them — Maria Friedman's splendid, London-born revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 musical, "Merrily We Roll Along," from Boston's Huntington Theater Company — the view is also exhilarating.
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In "Company" and "Merrily We Roll Along" (both by George Furth) and "Follies" (by James Goldman), the spoken parts are almost always where the action isn't; you sit through them to get to the songs.
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Or "Merrily," that great white whale of musical theater aspiration, with a hundred Ahabs bent on landing its jaw-dropping score and unworkable book, even if it means building a new whale in the process.
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He has called for advocates of Hong Kong independence to be "killed without mercy," merrily welcomed intervention by Chinese troops to quell the unrest and uttered profanities against his political opponents in the Legislative Council.
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Along with the gloss, Ms. Min brought a take-no-prisoners approach to industry news, a big change to a model that had allowed the Hollywood trade publications to merrily exist for nearly a century.
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It's certainly fun to play and critics (including Motherboard) are merrily shoveling accolades on the freshly released Civilization VI, but watching matches is a bit like watching civilizations advance through their various stages in real time.
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The two are merrily driving away while Roxette's "Listen To Your Heart" blasts on the radio, but Villanelle's mood sours when Konstantin echoes Raymond and informs her that Eve's attention is on this mysterious new murderer.
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The two men merrily wave us off from the driveway, laughing as they begin another string of absurd and affectionate jokes of the kind that might one day go some small way toward saving the planet.
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My sister Merrily, however, has 35 years in the corporate world as director of early education in the independent school system, and so maintains the day-to-day operations, and the importance of keeping good books.
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He is the inadequate man, the lowly man, the hurt man who has given hurt, insisting modestly but stubbornly (except in "I'm Your Man," when he merrily mocked himself) upon his right to a sacred exaltation.
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In the days, weeks and years following this vote, Americans will be merrily shopping online for the holidays, posting pictures on Instagram, vigorously voicing political views on Facebook and asking Alexa the score of the game.
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He's currently working on a feature film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along starring Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein, which is not set in Texas but will reportedly take 20 years to finish.
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After a few minutes of what just seemed to be small-town life in the village of Aberfan, Wales, rolled merrily across my screen, I finally Googled to see what on earth we were waiting for.
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There are few moments in musical theater as heartbreaking as the one near the end of "Merrily We Roll Along," when the reverse chronology of the storytelling lands us on a Manhattan tenement rooftop in 1957.
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The map scrolls smoothly along as your cat warrior skips merrily along from town to town, so you won't get even a hint of nausea if you happen to be sick with the flu at the moment.
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By the 600th game, the neural net was using a more expert move employed by human Breakout players, chipping through an entire column of bricks and setting the ball bouncing merrily along the top of the wall.
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Is she built for service — such as the ministry she was called to in her post-Apprentice, post-Hollywood life — or for merrily skimming along the surface of things, not caring about the mess in her wake?
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In this century, though, Britain has become a fertile incubator for reinvigorated American song-and-dance shows, from venues that include the Menier Chocolate Factory in London (birthplace of Ms. Friedman's "Merrily") and the Chichester Festival Theater.
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Before the evening of chaos, the campaign of Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who is not contesting the early states, spent the day merrily sending out news releases about states voting in March or later.
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It trafficked in many of the same big moments and plot lines as other teen soaps, but added a knowing twist, merrily tipping its hat to its own implausibility while cranking the drama dial way past 11.
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In his several residences he amassed a collection of 50,000 books; but he still spent five days a week merrily teaching semiotics in Bologna, partly at the university and partly, till late, in the tavernas of the town.
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Having lost her job at a tire store, she's merrily sunken into a state of cheerful denial about her insolvency, preferring to unleash another preposterous tall tale whenever her daughters try to jostle her into facing the situation.
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She flits merrily between sounds and styles, often at the same moment—utilizing multiple dizzying lines hard-panned to either ear (a practice she says was inspired by a Henry Cowell book and the evolution of human hearing).
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Art lover and art form a dancing band that merrily tours New York City (the Statue of Liberty's crown, a ride on the Cyclone, hot dogs from a street vendor) before heading back, jammed hilariously into a taxi.
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The pain that courses through Ms. Friedman's "Merrily We Roll Along," which I saw in an earlier version at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London four years ago, is authentic enough to keep its audience bathed in tears.
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"Merrily We Roll Along," a Stephen Sondheim musical that abruptly flopped on Broadway in 1981 but has become a much-loved show in the decades since, will be revived Off Broadway next winter by the Roundabout Theater Company.
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The man who apparently grew up with a Bible that clearly missed the section about not bearing false witness, who claimed this vote was about radicalizing children and curbing religious freedoms—that guy can now fuck merrily off forever.
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I'm glad Sedaris has an Instagram account in part because the prankster photographers Pierpaolo Ferrari and Maurizio Cattelan of Toiletpaper magazine don't: She shares their winking, gleefully gross vintage spirit, the midcentury housewife who has gone totally, merrily batty.
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You can see the effects most drastically in the map's thermal overlay, where the generator and its surroundings burn merrily in reds and yellows, while buildings on the edge of the settlement appear in colder aquamarines and deep blues.
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In other cases, Euro-English is just a naive but incorrect extension of English grammatical rules: many nouns in English that don't properly pluralise with a final "s" are merrily used in Euro-English, such as "informations" and "competences".
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Part of the conceit of the original Broadway production was that the roles of embittered, middle-aged people would be played by teenagers, and the entire cast of Merrily We Roll Along was between the ages of 16–25.
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The onstage Laura admits to being "in conversation with Pirandello," but the primary connection made by "The Watsons" is to its audience, who at a recent matinee seemed to be all smiles as events went their merrily unexpected way.
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Beam Mages can fight adequately at close-quarters, but they're better off hanging back a bit and launching time attacks to slow enemies or even freeze the clock entirely, holding them in place while the other Kirbys merrily whale away.
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Sure, I've met some who drill half a dozen holes, then sit in their shanty drinking coffee laced with cheap red wine, and merrily go home at the end of the day, their flasks as empty as their fish buckets.
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How is it that Ecosia has been merrily pumping out month after month in which it brings in at least double its total cost of operating—unheard of for nearly any business—while its technological backbone only recently became profitable?
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Many artists make that claim, but Uzi's version is particularly charismatic, less wrapped up in the idea of hotel room-destroying energy than a type of intense enthusiasm for merrily leading other kids down the path of having more fun.
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This British producer forgoes the hollower, more barbaric side of his texture in favor of something more indebted to 2-step garage than to dubstep, with wistful, hazy vocals and a bass line that skips merrily rather than throbs with melancholy.
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In their 226-plus years as one of indie-rock's most reliable acts, Yo La Tengo have hopscotched merrily between whirling noise and tender whispers, setting a fine example for scores of younger musicians in both modes along the way.
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Prince went on to direct the original productions of seven Sondheim musicals: Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (19133), and Bounce (2003), later renamed to Road Show.
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Like Maria Friedman's wonderful London-born production of another so-called Sondheim problem musical, "Merrily We Roll Along" (recently seen in Boston), Mr. Cooke's "Follies" finds an exquisitely painful clarity in probing the wounds of the damaged figures at its center.
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A film review on Friday about the documentary "Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened," which looks at the short-lived 1981 Broadway musical "Merrily We Roll Along," misstated the timing of the recording of the original cast album.
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Serenaded by a chorus of tribal singers, the crush of African leaders, European diplomats and pop icons climbed the stairs of the newly built train station and merrily jostled their way into the pristine, air-conditioned carriages making their inaugural run.
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The HKW doesn't miss its chance to merrily topple male-modernist myths, and adds a new twist: these celebrated artists were cogs in the capitalist expansion, unbeknownst to them, frontmen for the CIA's global mission to plant the aesthetics of freedom.
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Dream's mama shared glimpses of King's decorating efforts on Snapchat, including video of the adorable toddler adding a mini red stocking with a K embroidered on it to a sparkling Christmas tree while the aforementioned "Santa Baby" plays merrily in the background.
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Sondheim and Prince were an unstoppable Broadway duo; they'd collaborated on hits like Sweeney Todd (1979), Follies (1971), and Company (1970), and it was widely assumed that their next joint effort—the highly-anticipated Merrily We Roll Along—would be a smash, too.
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And he's not there to provide an emotional underpinning for the eunuch-like hero and to distract us from the show's retrograde, teenage-boy's perspective on sex and gender (mostly embodied in Mr. Danza's character, a backslapping, merrily harassing Rat Pack leftover).
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"I first saw and fell in love with Merrily in the '80s, and I can't think of a better place to spend the next 20 years than in the world of a Sondheim musical," Linklater said in a statement obtained by THR.
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Merrily widowed and wealthy enough to roam with relative impunity, she's unprepared for the complex politics of the region, managing to irritate the tribespeople, the United States Army (in the brusque form of a stellar Sam Rockwell) and the brutally bigoted townsfolk.
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"I...hang my head in shame after witnessing video clips of goons merrily entering JNU campus, creating mayhem and grievously injuring innocent students, damaging public property and then exiting the campus," Rahul Mehra, a lawyer for the Delhi police, said on Twitter.
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The Bake Off tent is full of cream and fondant while the butter merrily melts to the sound of the theme song, but I always felt the whole thing would be a lot more entertaining if the contestants and the judges were stoned.
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It turned out that, as I was merrily bouncing my way down the stairs, I managed to jar my brain to the point that the olfactory nerve—which links the sensitive areas of the nose to the central nervous system—was completely sheared.
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At W Magazine's Globes party on Thursday at the Chateau Marmont — a soiree liberally irrigated with Dom Pérignon and celebrities (oh look, it's Cate Blanchett here, Kristen Wiig there, and it-girl Alicia Vikander yonder) — awards watchistas merrily toasted the wackadoodleness of the year.
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For this old house is the setting for the New Group production of "Buried Child," Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from 1978, which opened on Wednesday night with a cast led by a splendid Ed Harris as a man drifting merrily into death.
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Her still-girlish puff of a voice is perfect for Winnie's indomitably chipper spirit as she spends her long hours babbling merrily, keeping up a bright sheen of optimism, expecting every day to be a happy day, in benign acceptance of her strange predicament.
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Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet.
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A fascinating counterpoint to "Merrily We Roll Along," if you're looking to reëvaluate a life in the arts, is the vibrant revival of Lynn Nottage's satirical 2011 play, " By the Way, Meet Vera Stark " (directed by Kamilah Forbes, at the Pershing Square Signature Center).
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CreditCreditAllison V. Smith for The New York Times FORT WORTH — The 3-year-old boy who could upend a 163-year-old law aimed at protecting Native American children barreled into the suburban living room, merrily defying his parents' prediction that he might be shy.
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If you lived through even a part of it, you'll be swimming merrily alongside her in memories — although, as Ms. Burns ruefully recalls, many of those wild, unforgettable nights may have been fogged to the point of obscurity by the ingestion of illicit substances.
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Melissa was going on merrily about how she gathers her family around her after work, listens to music, drinks wine, cuts up a bunch of vegetables and roasts them, has dinner on the table with a big dollop of ricotta by, like, 7 p.m.
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In her later years, Ms. Carroll became known for her interpretations of Sondheim, putting her stamp on "Old Friends," from "Merrily We Roll Along," and "With So Little to Be Sure Of," from "Anyone Can Whistle" — songs about friendship, love and the passing of time.
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" He also claimed that "four reporters" saw his wife "walking merrily" at the White House last week but deliberately didn't report the sighting "because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever.
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You know what the funny thing is, the only way the Dems can win is if the country is in peril, so as long as things roll merrily along like the economy and whatnot, they are going to be road kill on the highway of life.
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Stidhum had just purchased the chicken and was about to dig in when a question popped into her head: What will all of these white folks think when they see this black woman chomping away merrily on a fried chicken leg in a classy corporate establishment?
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North Korea is merrily chugging along in its quest to develop rocket engines for long-range missiles that could one day send a nuclear weapon across the world, according to recent reports indicating that Kim Jong-un's regime had successfully tested a solid-fuel rocket motor.
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My bike wouldn't fit in my two-inch-wide urine-soaked apartment in Sunset Park, so I found someone to take over my lease and I rode a Segway all the way to Hollywood, eating local fruits and reciting positive affirmations as I rolled merrily along.
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If a whole bunch of them start conglomerating in Kansas or in Wisconsin or Alabama, sure, we will enthusiastically, merrily, happily, honestly, gleefully open an office there, but it's led by where people want to live, first, and ... Right, one or two there, but not enough.
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I've caught up on matches while calmly walking back from the subway, streaming merrily in HD through YouTube TV, watched shootouts on a second screen at the office while writing posts (including this one), and caught early morning matchups from the comfort of my bed on weekend mornings.
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This Fashion Week has been peddling its wares since 2011, skronking merrily across their grimy outer boroughs stomping grounds and preparing to take their sweaty, manic live show on the road once more—this time, to Europe, where they'll proceed to aurally pummel the denizens of Germany, Romania, and more.
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She nails the cringey awkwardness of a high school musical audition, tugging at her sweatshirt sleeves self-consciously, and is a delight to watch in the low-budget production of Merrily We Roll Along (made even more hilarious by the fact that Feldstein is currently starring in Hello Dolly on Broadway).
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Never mind that 1919 brought on Prohibition, under which people were still able to get merrily sloshed in the comforts of their own homes: advertisers simply changed the words used to market their shakers, decanters, and glasses so their wares were at least packaged as more friendly for the whole family.
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Watching him merrily skewer trolls and offer political commentary (he's pissed about Brexit) amidst metal memories and excitement about Memoriam humanized a person who is—whether he'll admit it or not—a bonafide extreme metal legend, and made it clear the kind of person he is both on and offstage.
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All of which sounds fantastically fun and positive, and it mostly is, but there are some of us who utterly dread it, not because we don't drink, but because we're the ones who have to work behind the bars the rest of you are merrily propping up at, and later being sick on.
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"Doomsday is near; Die all, die merrily," that's the full, perfect quote referenced in the episode title from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I. Mankind, The 100 posits, chooses to spend its final days in a bloodbath, pitting the strongest fighters from each clan against each other, so only the best warrior will survive.
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"Then Hawaii, YOU can have YOUR so-called 'perfect' pathetic Hindu 1000 GODS leader along with YOUR pathetic 'career politician' Buddhist Hanabusa, and your pathetic American Traitor, And my family and I will go our merrily way," Kaaihue wrote in a press release, offering to drop out of the race if Gov.
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It remains to be see whether this is a shot-in-the-foot strategy, especially while shows like BBC-to-Channel 4 gem The Great British Bake-Off sit merrily having their proverbial cake and eating it too on Netflix — Seasons 1 to 7 will come to BritBox within the next six months.
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He is the magician who swallows a sword no one thought was part of the act, stuffs a dozen rabbits into a hat before the audience can count them — and then merrily tweets about "Fox & Friends" while the crowd strains to remember what show it had paid to attend in the first place.
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During rehearsals for the fall musical production of Merrily We Roll Along, Lady Bird develops a crush on Danny (Lucas Hedges), the sweet redheaded boy from a big Irish Catholic family who becomes her first real love, though she can't help eyeing too-cool-for-school Kyle (Timothée Chalamet) at a party too.
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Maybe it's the faded dollar bills papering the bar, or the mannequin dressed as a mermaid hanging over the entrance, or the sheer miracle that this hundred-year-old, nondescript building is even still standing in a city where such places are either merrily bulldozed or trussed up with reclaimed wood and a rebrand.
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What makes Travesties so fun is how it merrily mixes and remixes all of these elements and others, trying to replicate the hiccuping stop-and-start of our unreliable memories, while also examining whether the, well, earnest ideologies of Leninism and Dadaism and art for art's sake could lead to living a good life.
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Written by Matti Kovler and Aya Lavie, with an English translation by Spencer Garfield, and produced by the company Floating Tower, the show leads young theatergoers through various environments in the Blue Building in Manhattan, where they'll encounter creatures like merrily singing lice, a chatty troll and a bad-tempered ogre called the Evil Humm.
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The book skips merrily from topic to ghoulish topic, exploring the mechanics of those Coney Island death traps; peering at the lurid attractions of the sideshows of old; weaving a story about Victorian hair art; poking away at humanity's curious impulse to "play dead;" and delving into the emotional intricacies of collecting other people's mourning objects.
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" That despite the global obesity panic and daily media headlines framing every fat body as a ticking time bomb, I had been skipping along merrily through life, completely oblivious to any of this — until she arrived, superhero cape fluttering in the breeze, to tap me on the shoulder and say, "Haven't you heard that being fat is unhealthy?
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Metal is almost universally maligned, laughed at, or ignored by mainstream media, treated as a joke or a token by most music media, and generally given no respect; now, some pop tart wants to swoop in, nick our look, ignore the music itself, and trot merrily to the top of every chart and cover of every music magazine?
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Groups gathered in parks in London, Berlin and Madison, inspired by the inaugural 2013 event when around 300 people danced to the song in Brighton in the UK. The Sydney event invited participants to "dance freely and merrily, frollicking and bounding across the grasses," while in Melbourne, organisers told Agence France-Presse around 2,000 people took part.
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If she is absolutely sure that she is a feminist, and if she is absolutely sure that she is against the harming of vulnerable people, then she is left with difficult questions: If she was merrily compliant with behaviors that are not acceptable in the workplace today, does that make her complicit with the culture of harassment?
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By this, I mean the strangers I had moved in with that September announced they were having one, which immediately inspired a month of anxiety—what if I want to go to bed and people are still in my house, merrily chuckling to themselves about how they're totally subverting childhood conventions by carving a bong out of a pumpkin?
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While she lunges boldly forward with plans to save the family dog, merrily disregarding common sense or her siblings' feelings — selling their personal treasures on eBay is, to her mind, a logical sacrifice on their parts — Liam trails behind in a state of high exasperation, stuck on one emotional setting, while his sister has a one-track mind.
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And it makes you wonder whether Poussin's decision to undertake a "Triumph of Bacchus" in the first place, and to interpret it so merrily (there seems to be no downside to the Dionysian revels, other than the cosmic revenge suggested by the smoking volcano) constitutes an admission of doubt that calls into question the philosophical purpose of his rationalist enterprise.
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I mean, it's easy as shit; please watch this video I love, with the hilariously deranged song ("I love you, Alice B. Toklas / So does Gertrude Stein"; my, what lyrics!) playing in the background as Taylor-Young's character transforms store-bought powder into "the food of paradise": And then watch as people ingest these babies and merrily lose their minds.
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Both harbored an intense dislike for Lewandowski, who they believed had tried to wall off their access to the candidate — Stone, whose formative years were spent working for the re-election campaign of President Richard Nixon, described Lewandowski to me as having "all of Bob Haldeman's negative traits and none of his good ones" — and merrily disseminated tales of his imminent professional demise.
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The music at the beginning of "Merrily We Roll Along," Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's famously reviled and doggedly reworked 1981 show, is so bright and bold and joyous that you can't help feeling swept up in its optimism, anticipating greatness, much as the three artists at the center of the story did when they were young and starting out.
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Off Broadway, in addition to "Merrily," Roundabout will present "Toni Stone," a new play by Lydia R. Diamond, starring Uzo Aduba ("Orange is the New Black") and directed by Pam MacKinnon, about the first woman to play as a regular on a big-league professional baseball team; and "Apologia" by Alexi Kaye Campbell, starring Stockard Channing and directed by Daniel Aukin.
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Mr. Ratmansky gives them virtuoso challenges that delight and excite without falling into bravura cliché, as he does Ms. Abrera (merrily polished) and Mr. Hallberg, who have the chief dance honors in Act I. My only cavil is that Mr. Hallberg has retained his worst mannerisms, of letting his mouth hang open (it looks foolish) and attempting an array of charming facial expressions.
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Sometimes when your career is merrily rolling along you have neither the time nor the inclination to fuss about your living quarters, to get all hot and bothered just because there are large rips in the upholstery, to care that there are too many things — some nice, like the Danish modern bench; some less so, like the sofa — from too many places, all heedlessly thrown together.
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Every hint of a smile playing across a character's face, every hair, every chip in the paint in the scenery, every fan coral waving gently in the water, hell, every drop of water you see — the minutest detail, every single last pixel you see on the screen — is the result of somebody clicking a mouse, moving a pen across a tablet, or typing merrily away at a keyboard.
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Ever since she blazed onto Broadway with a Tony-winning, show-stealing performance in a revival of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" in 1999 (she officially made her Broadway debut two years earlier, in "Steel Pier"), Ms. Chenoweth has returned regularly, in revivals of "Promises, Promises" and "On the Twentieth Century," but perhaps most memorably as the perkier witch in the long-running "Wicked," chirping merrily about her popularity.
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First staged Off Broadway, in 1990, the show bends time and space to bring together the motley band of outlaws who have slain (or attempted to slay) a Commander-in-Chief, from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr. From its opening number—set at a shooting gallery, where a proprietor merrily invites the likes of Charles Guiteau and Giuseppe Zangara to "c'mere and kill a President"—the musical is an uneasy vaudeville of political bloodlust.
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In the last couple of weeks, Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets have exposed millions of Americans to false stories asserting that: the Clinton campaign's pollster, Joel Benenson, wrote a secret memo detailing plans to "salvage" Hillary Clinton's candidacy by launching a radiological attack to halt voting (merrily shared on Twitter by Roger Stone, an informal adviser to the Trump campaign); the Clinton campaign senior strategist John Podesta practiced an occult ritual involving various bodily fluids; Mrs.
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Both of them tempt Nick — Jenny with a normal family life (albeit one chasing monsters) and Ahmanet with, uh, becoming a living god — and I might be slightly more troubled by the movie setting up this dichotomy between a pretty blonde white woman and a raven-haired, olive-skinned woman whose ethnicity the movie merrily checks off as "Egyptian or something," but, as we've established, nobody making The Mummy thought at all about what they were doing, so it's hard to get too mad.
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Today, about 9 percent of the student body are on scholarships.) Still, as much as any parent who's unsure whether his child is getting the best education (in other words, all parents), I surveyed with envy the kids merrily clambering down jungle paths, the river gurgling in the background and the colorful shrines bedecking the hillsides, thinking grimly of my daughter encased in her sealed-window institutional public school building, shunted to the school gym to watch movies on days with a little bit of bad weather.
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