[Pannic]

Merrily We Roll Along was heavily revised after it's intial two-week run on Broadway. One main change was the change in the ending song.

The original production ends with the college graduation, with the choir singing "The Hills of Tomorrow," written by the main character.

The revised version has the friends meeting on the rooftop, and the final song is similar, but highly modified, as "Our Time."

I'd like to know which version the people here prefer.

Personally, I prefer "The Hills of Tomorrow." I find it to be more melancholy in its context.

[BenStone]

I'm not sure if you're suggesting that Our Time is an addition to the original score?

The current version of the show dispensed with The Hills of Tomorrow as both the opening and the closing of the show when the two graduation scenes, which acted as bookends in the original, were cut. However, Our Time was always in the show and contrasts with the hymns to individualism of both Rich and Happy (in which Our Time is quoted) and That Frank - Our Time is also quoted in Now You Know.

It has more impact to end with Our Time, when the three friends first meet, rather than go back to a graduation with Charley and Frank and make the same point again - which is what happened in the original.