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The re-writing - and re-titling - of musicals by Mark Shenton

Musicals, as Stephen Sondheim once said (and Andrew Lloyd Webber now knows), aren't written, they're re-written. And you could say, too, that sometimes they're not just re-written, they're re-titled, too. Sondheim's latest show Road Show received its European premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory last night, some 58 years after he started writing it as The Legendary Mizners in 1953, but abandoned it. He finally re…

SOURCE: The Stage at 01:26AM on July 7, 2011

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