AmericanTheaterWeb Original News & Reviews

Here's a sampling of the reviews that I've found online so far. Of course, there will be a full digest tomorrow - figured that everyone would like to see what's in so far before hitting the sack.

Andy Propst

New York Times

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It’s raining greenbacks in “Road Show,” the latest version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s long-aborning, ever-evolving and eternally slender musical about curdled American dreams, which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater. Throughout this short and sardonic production, directed by John Doyle and starring the marvelous team of Michael Cerveris and Alexander Gemignani, fistfuls of dollars are flung into the air with such enthusiastic frequency that by evening’s end they carpet the stage floor.

New York Daily News

Sondheim returns to Broadway with 'Road Show'

amNY

Theater Review of Road Show
It’s been over a decade since Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman began work on their musical about real-life brothers Addison and Wilson Mizner. While in development, its titles have included “Wise Guys,” “Gold,” “Bounce” and finally “Road Show,” which now makes its long-awaited New York debut. ... So was it worth all the wait? It pains us to confess that after so much rewriting and so many directors (Sam Mendes, Hal Prince and John Doyle), “Road Show” probably is the least interesting show in the exalted Sondheim canon.

Associated Press

Two brothers are forever seeking success in musical 'Road Show'
...persistence has paid off, at least for the show's creators. They have put together a small show about big ideas, an intelligent, fascinating examination of the American psyche, both good and bad. The musical opened Tuesday at the Public Theater off-Broadway.

Variety

Reviw: Road Show
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman have cooked up a strange and beguiling musical in "Road Show." "In America, the journey is the destination," says one of the enterprising early 20th century brothers whose paths are unconventionally mapped here. ... Is it a major new Sondheim work? No. But it's far from the failure its tortuous path to New York might suggest.

Hartford Courant

Sondheim's Reworked Musical On A Long And Winding Road
First it was "Gold!," then "Wise Guys," then "Bounce." Now as "Road Show" this tale of the roving Mizner brothers rolls merrily along for a time, but finally tilts off the rails.

NPR

After Years, Sondheim's 'Road Show' Pulls Into NY

USA Today

'Road Show' is rich with despair
Feeling discouraged by the plummeting economy? Have I got a deal for you. ...
Money is literally raining on the Public Theater's stage, where Road Show (**** out of four), the taut, thrilling new musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, opened Tuesday.

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Stephen Sondheim's 'Road Show' opens at New York Public Theatre, and Mizners have the last laugh

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 'Road Show' finally hits New York
Odds are that many of the critics who went ape for "Billy Elliot: The Musical," finding it a testament "to the power of the human spirit" to such an extent that all flaws were forgiven, will approach "Road Show" with daggers drawn. ....

TheaterMania

Review: Road Show
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's long-aborning musical about two brothers in the early 20th Century is sadly deficient.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Road Show
The next-to-last thing a musical needs if it's been gestating for a decade is a different title, especially if it's already gone through three - that's enough to make you think the creators have no clue what they're writing. The last thing a musical needs if it's been gestating for 10 years is direction by John Doyle, who has yet to demonstrate with any musical he's helmed in New York that he's had any clue what their creators actually wrote. Road Show, the energetically uninvolving musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman that just opened at The Public Theater's Newman Theater, has both. .