The film’s music producer, Mark Higham said of the ... eliminations of the show’s opening number “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” and its reprises. Other songs such as “Green Finch and ...

Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's (A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures) tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world. An ...

The yearning and anguish Sondheim poured into the music of “Sweeney Todd” may finally be as telling as any of the bloody action in the script. Tunick, who said his original orchestrations ...

After three stripped-down revivals – most recently off-Broadway in 2017, set in an immersive pie shop – "Sweeney Todd" swings his razor once again in a sumptuous and thrilling production ...

winning three including Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (for George Hearn). A version of the 2004 West End production of Sweeney Todd, directed by John Doyle ...

Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler. Directed by Thomas Kail. Choreography, Steven Hoggett; sets, Mimi Lien; costumes ...

The inconsistency of the music makes these transitions feel a bit abrupt ... as their haunting movements elevate the eerie atmosphere of the various reprises of “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.” Darkly ...

That’s the thing about English music-hall entertainment, right, luv? It’ll make do wi’ whatever you’ve got. The plot is a deliberately gamy melodrama. Sweeney Todd, having escaped from ...

Playing Sweeney Todd, Josh Groban isn’t a true baritone ... I didn’t think it possible to sing the character’s music any other way. Annaleigh Ashford finds the way, and it is a revelation ...

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.