2024's triple-Tony-winning revival of George Furth and Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along has a dramatic cinema presentation, full of close-ups that make you wonder if they filmed "overdubs" without an audience there, but nevertheless suck you into the action more fully (same people who filmed Hamilton, so you know it's quality). Though a decade separates the two original productions, this is very much a companion piece to Company, with a similar sense of humor, achronological sequencing, and end note. It's about friendship, and told in reverse, and so about three friends who "go way back, but rarely forward", a play on words that very much becomes the play's structure. As we know what's going to happen from the first scene, each scene - essentially a betrayal of that friendship by Jonathan Groff - intensifies the tragedy. Some of us only sour with age, but it's only in looking back that we see what they/we have lost. Beautifully done. Great ensemble. Fun costume changes. Daniel Radcliffe gets very difficult things to do and aces them. Broadway star Lindsay Mendez is who we attach our hearts to. Katie Rose Clarke plays the gamut. And Krystal Joy Brown is extremely funny as that hussy, Gussie. I'm generally a Sondheim fan, and to me, along with Company, this is one of the greats.