Road Show

We saw Road Show at The Public yesterday.  The music was reminiscent of Assassins and Sunday in the Park with George and Stephen Sondheim's past efforts in general.   It lasted 100 minutes and was in a small theater, which is one of the assets of The Public (and off-Broadway).  You can see their faces.  But they were still mic-ed, and did a fabulous job of articulating the words.  The show grew on me, and I liked it more as it went along.  It was about the Mizner brothers, hustlers and entrepreuners from the late 19th/early 20th century.  As is often the case with Sondheim, it was about the tension between ethics and profit, about 'selling out'.  Michael Cerveris and Alexander Gemignani were fabulous, as was the whole cast.  The cast, by the way, was made up of real-looking human beings and not the  impossibly-beautiful and thin people you often see on stage.  

Yours...