Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets

91%

(2380 Ratings)

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Members say

Entertaining, Great singing, Absorbing, Great acting, Clever

About the Show

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford star in a new revival of Stephen Sondheim's bloody good classic.

An unparalleled masterwork by one of America’s most celebrated composers and lyricists, this heart-stopping musical thriller equally delights as it horrifies. Rife with diabolically dark humor and an exceptional, classic score, the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical spins the story of an exiled barber’s journey to avenge the evils perpetrated against him and his family by a corrupt system of justice.

Performed on Broadway with the original orchestrations for the first time since 1980, Jonathan Tunick’s classic 26-piece orchestration will interpret the score for the new production.

Tony-winning director Thomas Kail (Hamilton) leads the remounting of this epic musical thriller, starring Grammy and Tony Award Nominee Josh Groban (Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812) and Tony Award-winner Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots, American Crime Story: Impeachment).

Show-Score Member Reviews (1,158)

100

Great staging, Great singing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if Alluring, fascinating, disturbing & seductive. Annaleigh Ashford’s performance is pure perfection! Nicholas Christopher was superb! Bravo!

Don't see it if Do not miss this show! It has great lighting & stage design, great costumes and a compelling story. See it!

100

Funny, Great singing, Great staging, Great acting, Masterful

See it if You like theater w/ a deep social message w/ fabulous staging & music. ANNALEIGH ASHFORD & NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER are EXTRAORDINARY together!

Don't see it if Theater w/ dark Victorian themes colored w/ humor about Revenge, Social Injustice, Killings, Rape, Mental Illness & Cannibalism disturb you. Read more

100

Clever, Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining, Absorbing

See it if You love strong musicals. Josh Groban and company give the performances of a lifetime.

Don't see it if There is nothing about this show that I did not love.

100

Delightful, Epic, Great singing, Great acting, Entertaining

See it if you want to see a wonderful revival of an amazing show. Annaleigh Ashford is not to be missed!

Don't see it if you don't like death, murder, and blood.

100

Entertaining, Absorbing, Ambitious, Enchanting, Delightful

See it if you enjoy fabulous music, dramatic storytelling, sophisticated theater

Don't see it if you don't enjoy complex musical scores and plot lines. Read more

100

Absorbing, Exquisite, Great acting, Great singing, Great staging

See it if You like stories about passion and revenge😏. The music is beautiful, the show is epic! Visually 🤩!!

Don't see it if You don’t like to see people bloodily murder on stage😈… is that comment a spoiler!?🤔 Read more

100

Must see, Great singing, Funny, Entertaining, Absorbing

See it if You enjoy the story or are fans of the numerous talent in the show! Everyone is fantastic! The staging and lighting is also wonderful.

Don't see it if You're not a fan of musicals or can't handle some gore.

100

An amazing experience., Engaging, Scary, Clever, Absorbing

See it if You love a dark tale. It was very well done, and the stage was wonderful to look at

Don't see it if You are not into something dark and painful. It can be a bit bloody.

Critic Reviews (28)

CRITIC’S PICK: “... 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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“You won’t leave humming the scenery, but that’s fine: The superb score, which melds period genres with modern influences, 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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“Kail...aims to ratchet Sweeney all the way back up, deploying a cast of 25, a two-level set by Mimi Lien with a towering crane—going big and crucially, expressionistic...His London is full of phantoms slipping in and out of the fog. Foremost among those phantoms: Josh Groban’s Sweeney, who glints but does not gleam in the darkness. ”
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“With flawless performances by the entire company, there's plenty to love about this chef's kiss of a revival of one of Sondheim's greatest works. Attend the tale — you won't regret it.”
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“Kail’s production has an austere severity that’s suited to serial killings but also makes it feel coolly remote...And there will be audiences who remember hearing the dynamite score of ‘Sweeney Todd’ played by a 26-person orchestra, and sung by as many soaring voices, as a pulse-raising experience on its own, all handsome pageantry aside.”
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“By some mysterious alchemy, ‘Sweeney Todd’ excels at illuminating them all, exploring the best and worst of humanity in one of musical theater’s most thrilling, and chilling, works.”
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“With so many disappointments and reservations, I urge anyone unfamiliar with this work of cultural genius to see some, one, or any production of ‘Sweeney Todd,’ one of Broadway’s shining achievements. What a privilege it is to be part of this adventure, even in a sluggish, second-rate production like this one.”
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"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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