Miranda involves 'Merrily'

Lin-Manuel Miranda will topline the city Center Encores! presentation of "Merrily We Roll Along" in the year. Miranda, the Tony-winning creator and star of "Inside the Levels," look with Celia Keenan-Bolger ("Peter as well as the Starcatcher") and Colin Donnell ("Anything Goes") in Stephen Sondheim's 1981 tuner in regards to the disintegrating friendship from the songwriting duo, told backwards chronological order. Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley will are also made of the show, being helmed by frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine and choreographed by Serta Knechtges ("Lysistrata Manley"). "Merrily," getting a magazine by George Furth good 1934 follow George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, will be a flop within the original Broadway bow but has since gone onto be considered a cult fave among legit fans. City Center's Encores! centers presents an annual season of limited-run, concert-staged revivals of Primary Stem tuners, with past activities yielding Broadway transfers including "Chicago" and "Finian's Rainbow." The series' approaching staging of little-seen "Merrily" already remains extended beyond the traditional one-weekend-only operate on most Encores! shows, getting a 2-week stint set to see Feb. 8-19. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com