Is there a more beloved, ravishingly musical problem-child than Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along"? A near-mythic failure that closed in 1981 after 16 performances, this idealistic flop about disillusioning success has been reworked in so many ways for so many different productions that its back-story feels as wistful as its show-business plot.
SOURCE: Newsday at 03:14PM on February 9, 2012