Sweeney Todd
Opening Night: June 17, 2010
Closing: July 17, 2010
Theater: Barrington Stage Company
Sweeney Todd tells the chilling tale of a barber returning to Victorian London to seek revenge on the judge who destroyed his family and exiled him to an Australian prison. Passion, obsession and spine-tingling mayhem follow in this Tony Award-winning musical thriller.
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July 7, 2010
So charmingly frolicsome, so scarily intense. Two sides — and two ages — of one man’s life can be discovered roughly 20 miles apart in the Berkshires this week, glowing and glowering across the hills like the bright and hidden sides of the moon. These contrasting aspects of Stephen Sondheim, that most multifaceted of composers of musicals, are embodied by two thoughtfully assembled shows that reflect different chapters in his life. Experienced as companion pieces, they also suggest the extraordinary distance that Mr. Sondheim, who turned 80 in March, traveled in between.
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July 7, 2010
You couldn’t ask for a more perfect Mrs. Lovett than the one Harriet Harris is presenting in the Barrington Stage Company’s mostly compelling production of Sweeney Todd.
READ THE REVIEWJuly 7, 2010
Stephen Sondheim has been much feted for his unique contribution to the world of musical theater, never more so than in this year of his 80th birthday. On Broadway, courtesy of some ingenious merging of filmed interviews and live performance, Sondheim himself starred in Sondheim on Sondheim (review). Angela Lansbury, the original Mrs. Lovett of Sondheim’s masterpiece, Sweeney Todd — and like Sondheim, an octogenarian and national treasure— played Madame Armfeldt in a revival of A Little Night Music (review). To top off all these well-deserved accolades and launch Barrington Stage’s Main Stage season, the company’s founder and artistic director, Julianne Boyd , has mounted a thrilling revival of the musical thriller, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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