Just two legendary Hollywood personalities hanging out and taking in a present written by one among Broadway’s most celebrated minds, starring a few of theater’s largest stars. Meryl Streep and Martin Short invite you to maneuver alongside or, maybe, roll alongside. Only good buddies and co-stars who like an evening out in town within the constructing right here. Streep and Short, who’ve been the topic of hypothesis about whether or not they’re romantically concerned since they had been spotted enjoying some nice conversation on the Golden Globes 2024 in January, headed to the Great White Way Saturday to see the hit revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along. Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez star within the critically lauded show. Streep and Short, who additionally co-starred on season three of Hulu’s Only Murders within the Building, and will reunite in the show’s fourth season, have mentioned via representatives that they’re “just very good friends,” and Short himself told Bill Maher loud and clear in late January, “we’re not a couple.”The two stars sat collectively through the present on the Hudson Theater, and afterwards went backstage to fulfill the solid and have an impromptu singalong of “Old Friends,” captured by some of the cast members and shared on social media.Their friendship is bicoastal: Last month, the pair had been spotted leaving dinner in a gaggle of pals in Santa Monica, California. Despite the repeated statements on the contrary, hypothesis about whether or not Streep and Short are extra than simply pals continues to swirl amidst sightings of the 2 collectively. Streep, 74, quietly separated from her husband of 40-plus years, Don Gummer, it was revealed final October. A consultant mentioned that the couple had cut up years earlier than, and that “while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart.” Short, 73, was beforehand married to Nancy Dolman till her loss of life in 2010.