Road Show (musical)

Road Show
Cover art of 2008 Off-Broadway cast recording
Music	Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
Book	John Weidman
Basis	Adventures of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner
Productions	2003 Chicago 2003 Washington, D.C. 2008 Off-Broadway 2011 West End

Bounce
Cover art of 2003 original cast recording

Road Show (previously titled Bounce, Wise Guys, and Gold!) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman. It tells the story of Addison Mizner and his brother Wilson Mizner's adventures across America from the beginning of the twentieth century during the Klondike gold rush to the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. The musical takes considerable liberties with the facts of the brothers' lives.

The history and evolution of the show are extraordinarily complex, with numerous different versions and recordings.^[1] After a 1999 workshop in New York City, the musical was produced in Chicago and Washington, D.C. in 2003 under the title Bounce. Although it did not achieve much success it is notable due to the fact it is the last collaboration between writer-director duo Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince. A revised version of the musical premiered Off-Broadway in New York in October 2008 where the show changed its title for the last time to Roadshow.