.helen_e_shaw reviews the much anticipated Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
“There’s a hole in the world / Like a great black pit / And the vermin of the world / Inhabit it,” a stone-faced Sweeney Todd snarls, after the enthusiastic sailor Anthony burbles at him about coming home to London. Their conversation is the first in the much anticipated Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” at the Lunt-Fontanne—and, particularly with Times Square just outside, the most relatable. The great black pit’s nearby, but we’re all pie-eyed Anthonys.
Sweeney is a nightmare barber who cuts his clients’ throats, sometimes for good reason, sometimes out of sheer homicidal exuberance. Mrs. Lovett adores him, not least because he’s useful for her pie-making business: corpses slide off his barber’s chair, down a chute, and into her bakehouse.
But, then, he’s at a theatrical disadvantage. In Mimi Lien’s set, Groban’s character is often “upstairs,” which places him on a platform, behind a sight-line-spoiling railing, while Ashford gets to prowl the stage lip. Up those dozen stairs, he seems miles away. Get him down by the footlights, though, with the company’s incredible sopranos shrieking their siren-high “Sweeney! Sweeney!,” and he’s in business.
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