Merrily We Roll Along

About Merrily We Roll Along

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.

Maria Friedman's Merrily We Roll Along is a 2025 comedy music film. It runs 145 minutes and was released in December 2025.

The film is filed under sentimental, celebratory, exuberant, and unassuming. The film began as a stage production.

Jonathan Groff appears as Franklin Shepard, Lindsay Mendez as Mary Flynn, Daniel Radcliffe as Charley Kringas, and Krystal Joy Brown as Gussie Carnegie. The screenplay is by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim. It was produced by Chocolate Factory Productions, No Guarantees Productions, and P-Cat Productions. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

Theater Camp, Hamilton, and Into the Woods make useful companions to Merrily We Roll Along, all filed under friendship. It carries a PG-13 rating.