South Staffordshire College Performing Arts

Critically acclaimed South Staffordshire College Performing Arts Department return to the Garrick to close their Performance Season 2014/15 with the smash hit Sondheim musical comedy Merrily We Roll Along.

Turning the traditional showbiz musical on its head is this thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success. Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves backwards, tracing the lives of wealthy, jaded composer Franklin Shepard and his two estranged friends through each milestone of their personal and professional lives (good and bad).

The show ends with a touch of rueful irony, as the three best friends at the start of their careers face a bright future: young, talented and enthusiastic about the worlds waiting to be conquered.

Features the hit songs Not A Day Goes By, Good Thing Going, Old Friends and Our Time.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart