On Broadway, he appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb's The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Accomplice, and Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, for which he garnered the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).

" The show is tentatively called All Together Now and is assumed to follow the format of Merrily We Roll Along.

* Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ) ( book by George Furth ; directed by Hal Prince )

* Merrily We Roll Along ( 2001, Best New Musical )

By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin ; the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of " Merrily We Roll Along " by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor.

was allowed to keep the Warner titles intact and simply inserted an " Associated Artists Productions presents " title at the head of each reel ( as a result, each Merrie Melodie cartoon had the song " Merrily We Roll Along " playing twice ).

* 1934 Merrily We Roll Along ( Kaufman and Hart )

** Merrily We Live-Elmer A. Raguse

Time Magazine wrote, " Superbly staged ...; superbly acted by the biggest cast seen in a legitimate Broadway production this season, Merrily We Roll Along is an amusing and affecting study ...."

By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin and the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of " Merrily We Roll Along " by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher & Eddie Cantor.

" being written ) from the given reissue season and the 1941 ending version of " Merrily We Roll Along " playing ( pre-1936 color Merrie Melodies would also have this ending ) with the 1938 card and writing.

The opening music was almost always the 1941 opening version of " Merrily We Roll Along ".

)" He also wrote a few songs, including " Merrily We Roll Along ," the Merrie Melodies Warner Bros. cartoon theme.

In 1935, along with Charles Tobias and Murray Mencher, Cantor wrote " Merrily We Roll Along ," which he recorded in the 1950s.

Gold was Gussie in Merrily We Roll Along at Haymarket Theatre, Leicester ( 1992 ; and on the 1993 cast album ).

Following Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), which was not successful, they parted ways until Bounce ( 2003 ).

Despite creating a number of hugely popular musicals in the late 1970s and 1980s such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, Prince had his first artistic failure with Stephen Sondheim in 1981 with Merrily We Roll Along.

* Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 )-director

She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live.

Her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live ( 1938 ) resulted in her only Oscar nomination.

* Merrily We Live ( 1938 )

* Merrily We Roll Along-1981

His many theatre credits include As You Like It, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Merrily We Roll Along, and Trelawny of the ' Wells '.

* Merrily We Live ( 1938 )

In 1938, she starred as the saucy mischievous daughter in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live and as girl detective Nancy Drew in the hit film Nancy Drew, Detective.

After a few more British talkies he moved on to lead roles in Hollywood, where he made over thirty films, including I Live My Life ( 1935 ), the multi-Oscar nominated brilliant ditzy comedy Merrily We Live ( 1938 ), Oscar-nominated for his role as Emperor Maxmilian in Juarez ( 1939 ), Vigil in the Night ( 1940 ), his best film, the 1948 psychological film noir, The Locket, Titanic ( 1953 ), and The Best of Everything ( 1959 ).

Merrily We Live is a 1938 comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod.

Merrily We Live was extremely successful and garnered five Academy Award nominations.

Merrily We Live was in production from October 27, 1937 to January 10, 1938.

Merrily We Live received five Academy Award nominations in total: Supporting Actress, Sound ( Elmer A. Raguse ), Song, Art Direction and Cinematography.

On March 3, 1938, parts of Merrily We Live were recreated for the radio on MGM's Good News Radio program, featuring the stars of the film.

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As Alan Mowbray, he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack.

* Merrily We Live ( 1938 )

He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live ( 1938 ), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie ( 1952 ).

* Merrily We Live ( 1938 )

One of her memorable roles was as Etta, the cook, in the five Academy Awards-nominated 1938 comedy movie Merrily We Live.

On December 23, 1937, she and Frank Montgomery, who was by then a technician of the Hal Roach Studios sound department, and was currently working on Merrily We Live starring Constance Bennett, were remarried in Darkfeather's home at 1420 ½ Mohawk Street, Echo Park.

During lunch ( Merrily rings the luncheon bell ), Cyril gets tipsy and inadvertently gives away his friends ' identity by singing a bawdy song ( Would you know the kind of maid ).

Sondheim's music director, Paul Gemignani, said, “ Part of Steve ’ s ability is this extraordinary versatility .” Merrily, however, was a 16-performance flop.

" Merrily did not succeed, but its score endures thanks to subsequent productions and recordings.

The failure of Merrily greatly affected Sondheim ; he was ready to quit theatre and do movies or create video games or write mysteries.

" The collaboration between Sondheim and Prince would largely end after Merrily – until the 2003 production of Bounce, another failure.

However, instead of quitting the theatre following the failure of Merrily, Sondheim decided " that there are better places to start a show ", and found a new collaborator in the " artsy " James Lapine.

This expedition was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, the other members of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a toy Alsatian to represent Montmorency, the dog in the original story.

Some writers of carols, such as George Ratcliffe Woodward who wrote Ding Dong Merrily on High and William Morris who wrote Masters in this Hall, reverted to a quasi-mediaeval style ; this became a feature of the early twentieth century revival in Christmas Carols.

He was also known for his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim: the highly successful Company, the ill-fated Merrily We Roll Along and the ( equally ill-fated ) drama, Getting Away with Murder.

Shepard recorded Sondheim's scores for Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along, the 1977 Broadway revival recording of The King and I, as well as the hits Ain't Misbehavin ', 42nd Street, and La Cage aux Folles.

The dedication was carried out by Bishop Derek Rawcliffe with Provost Malcolm Grant, with the Cathedral Choir singing Ding Dong Merrily on High.

" Ding Dong Merrily on High " is a Christmas carol.