Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

...all the best tunes and, in Terfel s case, he also sings them to perfection, interweaving Verdi, Donizetti, and Puccini, with Sondheim (Sweeney Todd), Weill (Mack the Knife), and Gershwin (Sporting Life). He even has his first ever stab at...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Wigmore Hall, London, Sweeney Todd, Mefistofele, Der Freischutz, Sporting Life, and Leonardo Leo

...drain "to feed a bunch of strangers"? Regardless of era or bank balance, it's a decent question. And this production by John Doyle ("Sweeney Todd") commits entirely to the monochromatic depiction of the struggles of postwar urban life. The...

In this article: South Pacific, John Waters, Broadway, Harvey Fierstein, Hairspray, Broadway, and John Bucchino

Broadway favorite Jeff McCarthy will star in the title role of the Barrington Stage Company's upcoming production of Sweeney Todd. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical thriller will play the Massachusetts venue June 17-July 17, 2010,...

In this article: Jeff McCarthy, Sweeney Todd, Preemption, Pirates of Penzance, World Series, Stephen Sondheim, Star Trek, and Follies

Cerveris was an undergraduate at the university and not at the graduate School of Drama. Still, up until his performance in "Sweeney Todd," he wasn't fully comfortable calling himself an actor, in part because many people's idea of an actor...

In this article: Michael Cerveris, Sweeney Todd, Mark Teschner, New York City, Broadway, and Stephen Sondheim

...which general director David DiChiera first brought to his stage in 1983. Over the next few seasons DiChiera also produced Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" and "Follies." DiChiera sees a similarity between the musical theater of Sondheim and that...

In this article: Leslie Uggams, Stephen Sondheim, A Little Night Music, Detroit, Magic Flute, Send in the Clowns, and Sweeney Todd

...Happy Birthday to You (in Welsh, naturally) to mark Terfel's 44th birthday, and lengthy pauses that killed the momentum as effectively as Sweeney Todd's razor (another prop) slit his customers' throats. Bittiness was the big drawback,...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Cardiff, St David's Hall, Mephistopheles, Don Giovanni, Faust, It Ain't Necessarily So, Sweeney Todd, Tosca, and Otello

...is a five-time Tony award-winning Broadway musical star. Two of her Tonys are for Sondheim musicals - the 1974 revival of "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd" in 1979. Lansbury's first musical theater appearance was in "Anyone Can Whistle."

In this article: Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle, Broadway, Washington, and U.S.

...musicals such as "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum''; "Into the Woods'' (a postmodernist take on folk tales); and "Sweeney Todd,'' which enjoyed a successful Broadway revival four years ago. Harris called "Assassins'' a...

In this article: Stephen Sondheim, Assassins, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, and Community theater

...Stephen Sondheim Award." Lansbury, 84, has rarely stopped since then. She has won five Tonys, including ones for "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd" -- both groundbreaking works attached to Sondheim's name. And this month she is returning to...

In this article: Angela Lansbury, Signature Theatre, Broadway, Kennedy Center Honors, Jessica Fletcher, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Golden Globe awards, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Company

...directness he brings to his music, without any attempts at intellectual secondguessing. His Sweeney Todd is intense and blood-curdling - he has been toying with the grand guignol idea of performing it in a small, claustrophobic theatre...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim, Jean Valjean, Mefistofele, Les Miserables, Mephistopheles, and Don Giovanni