Friday, November 28, 2008
Alexis Soloski: When playwrights do the rewrite thing
guardian.co.uk: "Rumour has it that men aren't very good at asking for directions. Certainly, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Road Show, which opened last week at New York's Public Theater, has taken one of the most circuitous routes to off-Broadway in theatre history. The musical details the peripatetic existence of the brothers Wilson and Addison Mizner, turn-of-the-20th-century polymaths and conmen, whose story first attracted Sondheim in 1952."
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I've heard a lot of negative things about the previous incarnations about this show, so for the New York Times to call it "eternally slender" is exciting.. Especially for a Soundheim show. It sounds, however, from the NYT review, that Roadshow could use another revision, and I hope that the writers are open to that sort of criticism.
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