#franklin shepard inc

[thelibraryofalexandriastillburns]

muttermuttermuttermutterYESJEROMEmutterNOJEROMEmuttermuttermuttermutter(that’shislawyer,jerome)muttermuttermuttermuttermutterDOITJEROME *click* SORRY CHARLEY

[sondheim-girly]

Fav character from merrily is ms.bzz tbh

[sh0rt-insomniac]

that frank !

[fifi-apa]

Franklin Shepard, Inc. - Merrily We Roll Along OBC

(Requested by @anewbrainjughead)

[clarasteam]

listening to this again because it's Daniel Radcliffe's birthday (not that I need an excuse)

[babymadeofbones]

this is definitely one of my fav performances of raúl's. it's such a hard song and he does it so well and his acting is just 💋🤌 i love how unhinged he gets

[myfreakingawesomeworld]

A clip from Daniel Radcliffe (and Jonathan) performing Franklin Shepard Inc in Merrily We Roll Along at the New York Theater Workshop!

Beware that this might het deleted soon due to copyright issues.

[olympain]

[alexjcrowley]

Listen here. Brocedes movie inspired by The Social Network? Excellent. But I raise you: Brocedes musical inspired by Merrily We Roll Along.

For those who don't know, Merrily We Roll Along is a musical about a tight-knit, years-old friendship between two guys and a girl and how it went to shit and tragedy mainly due to one of the guys, Frank, who was obsessed with success in the movie business.

It's really heartbreaking to watch a friendship deteriorate in front of your eyes per se, but here comes the stroke of genius that really stabs you through the chest.

The entire story is told backwards. You start with Frank, rich and famous, hosting a party at his house, surrounded by hoards of vips and celebrities. At that party we first find out that Frank used to be friend with a guy named Charles, who just won a Pulitzer, and then the woman who was the third member of Frank's trio (Frank, Charles and Mary) humiliates Frank in front of everybody, saying she despises everything he has become.

And then you go back. You see Frank, Charles and Mary just a little before that, with tensions who is just about to explode, everybody's angry and pissed, bit nothing's final. And then we go back again, and again, and again, until you end up at the end of the musical, which is the beginning of Frank's, Charles's and Mary's friendship, and they're all so happy and so close and would do anything for eachothers and they sing about how every road is open for them in life and you want to tear your heart from your chest because you just spend the whole show knowing they've already picked their roads and they all lead to heartbreak and they can never go back.

Now that you get the context, indulge my vision: first thing we see is Hamilton's news of signing with Ferrari and everybody being absolutely shocked and journalists asking Nico for his opinion. It's not specified who Nico is to Lewis. Then we go a little back, Nico's positive commentary on Lewis's races and Lewis flat out not reacting/avoiding him in the paddock. And then a little back, and a little back, and we go through all of the pivotal moments of Brocedes lore, we see "a better driver, and teammate", Nico's win+retirement, we see Spanish GP 2016 (plus Max's namedrop), we see Lewis and Nico as teammate for the first time, Lewis's first championship, Nico in Williams, the holidays in Greece, and then the show ends with young Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg meeting eachothers at karting competition and singing about finally having found a friend, the hope that they'll meet again, the dream of becoming f1 drivers and the promise to stay friends throughout it.

Now I made myself sad.

[loving-jack-kelly]

also maybe it's just because i really really dislike how to succeed but hearing how dan radcliffe's voice has developed and how he can keep up with powerhouses like Jonathan Groff and lindsay mendez now. good for him dot jepeg and it's not just because I'm now obsessed with charley kringas. his manic energy and pathetic awkward anxiety fueled breakdowns compell me yes but also dan radcliffe is killing it.

[yououghtaknow]

dealing with the generational trauma of being a theatre kid (believing that i'm "selling out" whenever i post on social media as a Theatremaker™)

[sondheim-girly]

I just completely blew out my voice singing Franklin Shepard Inc in my voice lesson and it was The Most Fun Ever

[walterdecourceys]

i'm sort of curious about going to see or finding a bootleg of the merrily revival because i want to see how they staged it and such but also you will never be the merrily production i saw at my community theater

[noys-boise]

i do believe Lin Manuel Miranda's singing voice improved a lot throughout the years. unfortunately he was in Merrily we roll along before that. i want to be able to listen to 2013 merrily so much for Betsy but. i reaaaally don't enjoy his Charley vocally

[clarasteam]

Looking at olympain's gifs of Franklin Shepard Inc, it's striking how still JG's Frank is in comparison with Mark Umbers in the London 2012-13 version. MU's Frank reacts a lot throughout the song (at different points he seems unsure where this is going, trying to laugh it off or behave as if it must be a joke, then wincing and turning away as the attack hits harder). JG's Frank looks frozen - maybe more so because Daniel Radcliffe's Charley is so emphatic in his gestures.