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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.
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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 Sondheim's most terrifying work. And it's a bloody good time.