2 brothers forever seek success in 'Road Show'

Money showers the stage like confetti in 'Road Show,' the exhilarating Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical that finally has surfaced in New York after a long, arduous journey that included several different titles, directors and casts.

Sondheim and Weidman have been as tenacious as their antiheroes, Wilson and Addison Mizner, whose constant pursuit of dollars and the American Dream has its ups and downs _ mostly downs.

But persistence has paid off, at least for the show's creators. They have put together a small show about big ideas, an intelligent, fascinating examination of the American psyche, both good and bad. The musical opened Tuesday at the Public Theater off-Broadway.

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