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3 days ago · High among Stephen Sondheim’s achievements in writing music and lyrics are the diabolical skills on gleeful and gruesome display in “Sweeney Todd,” the blackest humor musical of all.
16 hours ago · Sadly, the original musical scores have not survived but have been replaced with music penned by British operatic composers of the Victorian age. The tale of Sweeney Todd first appeared on the stage in East London in 1847 at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, as a melodrama: The String of Pearls, based on a popular “penny dreadful” serialised ...
Chance Theater’s rendition of ‘Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street‘, is a haunting and expertly crafted musical journey that captivates audiences from start to finish. Directed by James Michael McHale, this production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s dark classic unfolds with gripping emotion and razor-sharp wit at the Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center.
4 days ago · Sondheim created many successful musicals during his life. Time and time again, Sweeney Todd is recognized as one of the best shows he ever created, which means a lot. Sweeney Todd won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1979, picked up many nominations, and has won various awards as recently as last year.
1 day ago · Winston Peacock and Jocelyn A. Brown (Photo by Doug Catiller) Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Chance Theater Through Aug 11. In the midst of a SoCal summer heatwave, spooky season has come early to Chance Theater with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Sondheim & Wheeler’s three-hour murderous masterpiece about a mad barber bent on revenge.
1 day ago · Nick Dwyer as Sweeney Todd – Credit Andy Paradise. Nick Dwyer is a terrific Todd: a really, really good (and super-sartorially elegant) baddie laden with sinister charisma and just the right amount of pantomime-esque scoundrel qualities to eventually evoke boo/hiss interaction with the audience.
5 days ago · At the 2013 Olivier Awards, the Chichester production of Sweeney Todd won Best Musical Revival, and the transfer of Merrily We Roll Along won two Olivier Awards in 2014 for Best Musical Revival and Best Sound Design.
