Arts Alive! podcast: freeFall’s Mizner Brothers

Addison and Wilson Mizer, eccentric California-born brothers who created their own version of the American Dream at the turn of the (last) century, are the central characters in Road Show, the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical now onstage at freeFall Theatre.

Joey Panek and Robert Teasdale play “Addie” and “Willie,” respectively, in the production onstage through March 16. They are today’s guests on the Arts Alive! podcast.

Both actors will be familiar to bay area audiences from earlier Freefall productions – Teasdale had the lead role in last season’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and appeared recently in Moriarty.

A longtime musical theater performer, Panek is an on-air host on Suncoast View, the morning chat show on Sarasota’s WWSB-ABC7.

Together with a talented ensemble, they bring the Mizner Brothers’ story, including their plans to develop Boca Raton, Florida into a modern, master-planned city – to visceral, and entertaining, life.

Road Show was one of Sondheim’s last musicals, and during this conversation the performers discuss, among other things, what’s required to learn and deliver his trademark tongue-twisting lyrics and complex, melodic music.

For them, it was a road worth taking.

Click on the arrow to listen to the interview.