(The choreographer, Andrew Hallsworth, is critical here: he finds a movement language for these characters that evolves in reverse they open up and move more freely as they get younger.) The musical director, Andrew Worboys, makes a band of five feel like an orchestra, giving the show a driving, constant source of life. He transitions his cast back in time with the necessary support (wigs, costume changes), but it’s the subtle embodied shifts that make us believe it. He probes restlessly at character and story to find the emotional truth of the scene, and it’s that focus on the complications of friendship, fame and creative work – the tension of love affairs and the shattering depth of lost friendships – that makes the show feel like a success. Photograph: Andrew Coshan/Hayes Theatre CoĮnter director Dean Bryant, an artist who never chooses the easy laughs and spectacle-first approach to staging musicals. The additional screen element to the staging ‘pulls focus from the production’. How do actors de-age in front of your eyes and feel consistently real? How does a director ensure that we always understand the progression of time, and keep the characters on a steady journey that doesn’t feel overblown and overplayed? Both of these questions are even more critical at the Hayes, which only seats 110 there’s nowhere to hide. We end, heartbreakingly, when the friends are in their 20s, on the brink of their adult life. We see the moment Charley’s frustrations with Franklin boiled over and ended the friendship we learn why Mary is so unhappy we watch the friends lose their loving bond and with it their youthful optimism. It’s well-known by now that Merrily, after that first scene, just starts rolling back the clock. Franklin’s life is falling apart as the positive reviews roll in. His best friend Mary is drunk and caustic their third musketeer and Franklin’s one-time musical collaborator, Charley, is nowhere to be seen – the friendship clearly over. We meet them in their 40s, when Franklin – a Broadway composer turned Hollywood success – is rich and famous, and ultimately unhappy. The trio are close friends – or at least they used to be. That’s because this story – the story of Franklin (Andrew Coshan), Charley (Ainsley Melham) and Mary (Elise McCann) – moves backwards through time. The show doesn’t work if we don’t care about its characters – it’s critical that we believe in them and find their journey credible. (and more to come), and salons in international locations such as Japan, Kuwait, the Philippines, and Australia.But it’s still extraordinarily difficult to pull off. The chain has six locations in Manhattan and three in Brooklyn, but it also has many other outposts in the U.S.
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