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Boyhood director Richard Linklater is making an adaptation of the classic Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along, which is set to star Ben Platt, Blake Jenner, and Beanie Feldstein. But in classic Linklater fashion, he’ll be filming the entire musical in real time over the course of the next 20 years, via The Hollywood Reporter.
Merrily We Roll Along is a musical that depicts the lives of three friends: Franklin Shepard, a Broadway composer; Charley Kringas, a lyricist who partners with Frank; and Mary Flynn, a writer and critic. The show tracks the trio’s lives and friendships over 20 years in reverse chronological order. It starts with three old, bitter, and estranged characters, then jumps back scene by scene to how they got…