The best production of Merrily was the Donmar Warehouse production back in 2000 (i can't believe it was 22 years ago!)
Grandage restored Hills of Tomorrow and Rich and Happy (instead of That Frank) and made a few other changes. Sondheim was not happy. AT ALL. He allowed them to complete the run but that version will never be done again
I suspect it was Furth who was more upset than Sondheim. By the time of Look, I Made a Hat, Sondheim seemingly forgot all about the reversions (quite considerable) to the original and even pointed to the production winning awards as proving how successful the revisions had been.
