For Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along Feels Like an Exorcism

Jonathan Groff, who's currently starring in the revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along,' talks about coming out and growing up in show business.

, and Lindsay Mendez, the show’s exhortation to “tend your dreams” was blunted, in part, by its harsh understanding of how people change and money corrupts and friendships splinter.

GROFF: Completely. We’re singing about dreams, and broken dreams, and tending your dreams, all of that. It’s all very meta for anyone that’s in this industry. There are certain shows that are beyond theater, where it’s offering something up for the audience for them to be introspective about in a very direct, almost spiritual way, which is what this show feels like.

where I sang the role of Frank in “Opening Doors” and Jesse Tyler Ferguson did “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” so I knew the songs from there. Funny enough, we had just finished ourreunion concert, which was in the fall of 2021, and we were making a documentary about the concert and about the show. Thedoc was a big inspiration for that because of how they went back and forth and showed them as kids and showed them as adults16 years before, were in a film club during COVID.

GROFF: Well, I was still feeling embarrassed. I don’t know if it’s the deep-rooted shame of a Mennonite—my dad’s side of the family is Mennonite. But in 2008 and 2009, it felt like something I had to do. But it didn’t make me feel good. Being out still had a degree of pain to it, for some reason.happened. Those years with those guys and finding a community of people and support via that show was completely life-altering. Because it’s even more than self-love. It’s more like true self-acceptance.

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