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PS Classics and Nonesuch to Record Sondheim's Road Show Feb. 23

By Adam Hetrick
February 19, 2009

The cast of the recent Public Theater production of Road Show will head into a Manhattan recording studio Feb. 23 to capture the latest musical from Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Stephen Sondheim.

PS Classics co-founder Tommy Krasker told Playbill.com that Nonesuch Records will jointly produce the single disc. A spring in-store arrival is expected.

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November 19, 2008
THEATER REVIEW

Brothers in Flimflammery on a Continental Sojourn

By BEN BRANTLEY
It’s raining greenbacks in “Road Show,” the latest version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s long-aborning, ever-evolving and eternally slender musical about curdled American dreams, which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater. Throughout this short and sardonic production, directed by John Doyle and starring the marvelous team of Michael Cerveris and Alexander Gemignani, fistfuls of dollars are flung into the air with such enthusiastic frequency that by evening’s end they carpet the stage floor.

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Sondheim and Weidman's Bounce Will Bow at Public Theater This Fall

By Adam Hetrick
June 5, 2008

The Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical Bounce will land at the Public Theater in October, according to a casting notice.

Performances are slated to begin Off-Broadway Oct. 28 and continue through Nov. 30, with a possible extension through Dec. 28, according to a casting notice. Tony Award-winning director John Doyle, who previously confirmed he was attached to a fall Public staging of Bounce, will direct the musical that traces the lives of the rich, colorful and scheming Mizner brothers. Rehearsals are scheduled to begin Sept. 16.

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Photo Coverage: Ladies Who Sing Sondheim

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