5/5 Why the Change
  by Charles J. Anctil (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Road Show is really a great show, another Sondheim sharp crisp show., What for me however is that did it really need to be written? Bounce the original show, written but a few years earlier was great. It is true that to completely enjoy these shows you have to be a Sondheim fan, and that I am. I have both shows, and it is sort of strange to be hearing a lot of the same songs on both shows. In my opinion Bounce is more pure Sondheim than Road Show. But that is just my opinion. Glad to have both in my collection of Sondheim shows.

4/5 From Bounce to Road Show
  by Douglas Meny
To me Mr Sondheim is a genius, and I am so glad that I am alive while he has been writing his wonderful musicals. I flew out to Chicago to see Bounce when it first opened at the Goodman Theater, and I enjoyed it very much. I especially loved the score. There were problems with the book, but it was a work in progress. When it moved to the Kennedy Center, I again went to see it, and enjoyed it a second time. However, the reviews didn't warrant it coming into New York the way it was at that time. As he has done numerous times before, he kept working on it. Happily, the Public Theater decided to do the reworked version which had now been retitled Road Show. I looked forward to its opening, and I think they did they did a lot of good work on it, and it was a very different show than Bounce, but I liked it very much. Above and beyond anything, was the score. Some of it was reworked from Bounce with new lyrics, and some was brand new. If you are a musical comedy fan, and especially if you are a Sondheim fan, you should have both Bounce and Road Show. I love them both, and both recordings are great. "The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened" is one of my favorite Sondheim songs, and the use of the song in both versions is totally different, and I really love them both and am so happy I have them both. Buy Road Show, and then do yourself a big favor and buy Bounce if you don't already have it. I think you will thank me.

1/5 Such a disappointment
  by Mr. R. Allen (Brighton UK)
Road Show is a much revamped version of Bounce. That was less than successful; this, if anything, is worse. It is incoherent and the songs themselves are totally unmemorable. Sorry Stephen Sondheim if this is what you are reduced to now, perhaps it is time to stop!

1/5 ROAD SHOW by Sondheim
  by ROGER STEVENS
This album and the production itself is a con job...much like the Mizners themselves!!! When compared with BOUNCE, the original recording of this original product, there's very little that's new in ROAD SHOW. It's a totally unnecessary re-hash and re-recording.

3/5 I like Bounce
  by Patrice Caine (Cleveland, OH)
I am probably one of the few who had the opportunity to see "Bounce" in Chicago. I loved it. The music was not Sondheim's best, but still very good. I have only listened to the samples here, but this is no better. Well sometimes a new package gets a new audience. Still Sondheim is so wonderful, it really matters none if he does this again or not!