Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Opening Night: March 26, 2023
Theater: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Website: sweeneytoddbroadway.com
For the first time since 1980, Broadway audiences can experience Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award–winning score as it was performed in the original production—with Jonathan Tunick’s classic 26-player orchestration on an epic scale. Tony Award–winning director Thomas Kail helms the return of this musical thriller starring Tony and Grammy nominee Josh Groban as Sweeney Todd and Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford as Mrs. Lovett. Tony winner Alex Lacamoire reunites with Kail as Music Supervisor, and Olivier Award winner Steven Hoggett choreographs this new production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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March 26, 2023
Now comes a new special on the menu: the ravishingly sung, deeply emotional and strangely hilarious “Sweeney” revival that opened on Sunday at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. Starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, and directed by Thomas Kail, it has a rictus on its face and a scar in its heart.
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March 26, 2023
Ultimately, each critique of this formidable production’s faults is a drop in a bucket compared to its victories. Somehow, the hellish world of “Sweeney Todd” is a heavenly place for any musical theater lover to visit.
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March 26, 2023
Kail’s production has an austere severity that’s suited to serial killings but also makes it feel coolly remote.
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March 26, 2023
The superb score, which melds period genres (operetta, music hall) with modern influences (notably that of Hitchcock composer Bernard Hermann), is the main attraction, and it comes through gorgeously. Powerfully sung and played in Jonathan Tunick’s original orchestrations. Sondheim’s Grand Guignol masterwork sounds as grand here as it deserves to. Dig in.
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March 26, 2023
A prodigious theatrical event that aims for greatness and achieves it, this revival of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler masterpiece is not to be missed.
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March 26, 2023
A fully staged “Sweeney Todd” opened Sunday at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and beyond the aforementioned concert version, it is the best sung version of the Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical I’ve ever heard – and that includes both casts of the original 1979 production.
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March 26, 2023
Our eyes don’t normally well up with tears during “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Stephen Sondheim’s horror-musical in which throats are gruesomely slashed and cannibalism is positively hilarious. But minutes into the new Broadway revival starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford that opened Sunday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, I was already verklempt.
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At once funny, scary and disarmingly moving, this must-see production is content to peel back any cobwebs or artifice and let Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Gothic revenge tragedy of a musical howl anew with the agony of human injustice and the ameliorating constancy of love.
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March 26, 2023
In that closing moment—like much of the show, thrilling and arch all at once—an exquisite production outdid itself.
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March 26, 2023
When Sweeney refers to London as a “hole in the world like a great black pit,” you’re there with him in the pressurized depths where hungry and murderous creatures have evolved.
READ THE REVIEWMarch 26, 2023
Now, the legend is set to haunt Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in a riveting revival that features brilliant stage direction from Thomas Kail, a thunderous 26-piece orchestra, and a star-studded cast that succeeds in bringing both big laughs and serious scares.
READ THE REVIEWMarch 26, 2023
Sweeney Todd is back on Broadway, and there’s much to savor in this musical revival starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford. Stephen Sondheim’s sublime score sounds deliciously lush as played by the 26-piece orchestra, the singing is uniformly excellent, and Hugh Wheeler’s morbidly gripping story unfolds in crisp fashion.
READ THE REVIEWMarch 26, 2023
The new Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd,” the ghoulish marvel of a musical comedy that may represent the greatest achievement of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, reaches a deliriously mad peak just when it should, as the bloodlust of the title character, played by the pop phenomenon Josh Groban, unites with the desperate pragmatism of the pie-making Mrs. Lovett, embodied with hilarious zest by Annaleigh Ashford.
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March 26, 2023
It’s a breathtaking opening sequence for the big Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It perfectly sets the tone for a production that envelops the audience in its immense darkness.
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