Musical Theatre Heritage "Sweeney Todd" review by Nicholas Sawin

The common misapprehension about Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” is that this black operetta merely aims to horrify theatergoers with a tale of revenge that consumes a wronged barber, a demonic figure who slides his victims down a chute to become meat pies for the masses.

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