Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonPursuing the American dream is hard work as the Mizner brothers (the story is based on real life) discover after their father dies. This Sondheim musical was written in 1999, with book by John Weidman, and has had several incarnations. It is not, even after the latest tinkerings, Sondheim of the first rank but this richly enjoyable production sells it with carefree conviction and a rel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on July 9, 2011