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March 1, 2017

Spend the night with a world-famous serial killer! That’s the promise, proffered with the hopeful luridness of a penny dreadful title, behind the site-specific Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which opened on Wednesday night at the Barrow Street Theater. It must be said that the Tooting Arts Club’s deftly, uh, executed stunt of a show, which originated in London, delivers on its ingenious, if limited, objective. As directed by Bill Buckhurst, this latest version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1978 musical macabre puts its audience within throat-slashing distance of its sociopathic title character.

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