Michael Schulman interviews Jonathan Groff, who stars in “Merrily We Roll Along,” about his journey from his latest Tony nomination to his arrival in New York, waiting tables and dreaming of Broadway.
One of the problems with “Merrily” is its protagonist, Franklin Shepard, whom we first meet as a slick, philandering forty-year-old Hollywood producer. It takes two acts to arrive at the charismatic musician he once was, with a lot of mistakes in between. Putting effect before cause gives each scene a painful irony—but how do you get an audience to care about a guy who’s off-putting for so long? “Merrily” is back on Broadway, in a production directed by Maria Friedman, and it’s finally a hit.
It’s like being in middle school and reading a poem that you wrote, and everyone having opinions about it. So it hurt. Getting to do the movie allowed us to all have closure. But, in 2015, Michael Lombardo was our executive at HBO, and I was crying into my salad at some restaurant in West Hollywood, trying to convince him to keep the show going, right before getting on the plane to come do “Hamilton” Off Broadway. I loved Raúl Castillo, who played your love interest Richie on the show.
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