Attend(ing) the tale of Sweeney Todd by Mark Shenton

Sweeney Todd was the first Sondheim musical I ever saw in the West End, in the all-too-short-lived 1980 Drury Lane transfer of Hal Prince's original Broadway production, and a lifelong love of Sondheim in general and this show in particular was born. I can still vividly remember being alternately chilled and thrilled by its brooding, brilliant score and its terrifying dramatic trajectory so spellbindingly lightened b…

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