sweeney-Todd

Theater Reviews – This Broadway Season Welcomes Revivals of “Parade,” “Dancin’,” and “Sweeney Todd”

April 13, 2023
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Musical revivals are stealing the show on Broadway this season – some more successfully than others

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Theater Review: Cut and Slash Done With Panache — Lyric Stage Delivers a High-Caliber “Sweeney Todd”

September 13, 2014
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To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.

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Movie Review: ‘Sweeney Todd’

December 21, 2007
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By Caldwell Titcomb Stephen Sondheim has written the music and lyrics of at least a half dozen of the twentieth century’s greatest works for the musical theater. One of them is – to provide its full title – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It has now been turned into a movie, which…

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