★★☆☆☆ It’s not exactly a secret that Road Show isn’t a very good musical. The Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical has undergone reinvention after reinvention—and title change after title change—from its 1999 premiere as Wise Guys to its 2003 revision called Bounce. Road Show, in its final form (which runs at the Lyric Stage […]
A LOVELY SOUVENIR
Souvenir returns to the Lyric a decade later After 20 years as producing artistic director of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, there’s plenty of material that Spiro Veloudos could have chosen for the production that would commemorate his milestone. For Boston’s resident Stephen Sondheim expert, I’d have put my money on any […]
TELL IT STRONG AND CLEAR
“I thought, there’s more than one woman in Camelot,” said Veloudos, “and to fill out the kingdom you have to have more women involved, or Guenevere is extremely busy during the ‘Lusty Month of May.’”
IN COMES COMPANY
The cast of COMPANY gets lyrical
