Of all Stephen Sondheim's glorious, groundbreaking masterworks, "Sweeney Todd" may be the most user-friendly. It has worked wonderfully as grand opera and as Brechtian nightmare and as the original Industrial Revolution epic that opened on Broadway in 1979. Not to mention the big-screen "Sweeney" with Johnny Depp as the revenge-crazy barber.
SOURCE: Newsday at 09:06PM on March 1, 2017