by Stephen Sondheim

Text by John Weidman

Road Show, Stephen Sondheims first musical since his 1994 Tony Awardwinner Passion, is making its highly anticipated New York premiere this season at the Public Theater. The showwith the book by John Weidman, Sondheims collaborator from Pacific Overtures and Assassinshas been in development for several years with productions in Chicago and Washington, DC, and grew from an idea that germinated in Sondheims mind some fifty years ago. The show dramatizes the real-life Mizner brothers, following their fortunes from the 1890s Alaskan gold rush to the 1920s Florida land boom: Addison as an architect and Wilson as a con man, each brother seeking his own American dream.