Music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
Original book by F.E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles
Book by George C. Wolfe
Musical Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by Daryl Waters
Scenic Design by Santo Loquato
Costume Design by Ann Roth…
40 mins.
While at the present moment the fur continues to fly over a small plot of Manhattan real estate, 45 West 53rd Street, on which the inscrutable, but oddly appealing former home of the American Folk Art …
Music at the close. The adage is leave 'em wanting more, not less, but Stephen Sondheim has barely skirted the latter fate. At eighty-one, he's been erratically revising a problem child since 1999 that is now called, blandly, Road Show. Under various uninspired titles — Wise Guys, Gold!, and Bounce — the musical flipped and flopped around the country from Chicago to New York and Washington D.C. At every step of the way Sondheim, being Sondheim, attracted the biggest names to direct and star, including Hal Prince and Nathan Lane. But no luck.
