The score does so much of the storytelling. The tension builds almost unnoticed, and then a comic moment makes it even more uncomfortable. Worth sitting with for a while afterward.
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Returning from exile, Sweeney Todd opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling pie business. His search for revenge against a corrupt judge draws them into a macabre partnership. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s dark musical combines obsession, injustice, and unsettling humour in nineteenth-century London.
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The score does so much of the storytelling. The tension builds almost unnoticed, and then a comic moment makes it even more uncomfortable. Worth sitting with for a while afterward.
Darkly funny, with a strong sense of momentum. I wanted more tenderness in a couple of scenes, but the musical detail was excellent.



Forests, ghosts, bargains, and stories with a shadow at their edge.



Different moods, difficult choices, and lyrics worth listening to twice.