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Coming to you from the opposite end of the movie musical spectrum from where “Wicked” perches is Maria Friedman’s compact, propulsive film of her acclaimed revival staging of Stephen Sondheim ’s “Merrily We Roll Along.”

The revered composer’s 1981 musical is that canon rarity: a flop (as in, it closed two weeks after opening) that over time became a treasured classic. That’s an apt turn of fortune for a story deploying reverse chronology. Captured at the Hudson Theatre last year during its Tony-winning Broadway run , this “Merrily” is stirring evidence of a hit production, which starred Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez as the tight-knit trio of New York crea

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