Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature - The Washington Post

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A show called “Wise Guys” was announced with fanfare in 1995 as the Kennedy Center commissioned Stephen Sondheim to write a new musical to premiere the following year, opening the 1996-97 season as the august arts compound turned 25.

Since then it’s bounced around as the most heavily revised project of Sondheim’s career. Finally in a shape that makes Sondheim and librettist John Weidman happy, the musical — now called “Road Show” — is having its belated regional quasi-premiere at Signature Theatre, just down the river from the Kennedy Center, which this year turns 45.

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