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The Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, which opened Sunday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, packs an unmatched orchestral punch.

This must-see production lets Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s gothic revenge story do its thing, without reinvention.

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This must-see production is content to peel back any cobwebs or artifice and let Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s gothic revenge tragedy of a musical howl anew with the agony of human injustice and the ameliorating constancy of love.

The director of Hamilton takes a stab at Sondheims most terrifying work. And its a bloody good time.

Groban and Annaleigh Ashford lead a stately, star-filled revival in which the people-to-pastries pipeline quickly assumes a grim air of mundanity. 

Sondheim’s masterpiece, restored to its proper size and sung to the hilt by Josh Groban, makes a welcome Broadway return.

Deadline Broadway review of Stephen Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford.

Audiences are having a bloody good time on Broadway!

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take