Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if You want to see one of the best musicals of all time.
Don't see it if If you don’t like blood or gore. Read more
See it if Sondheim. Need I say more?
Don't see it if Not the best production. If you’ve seen past ones, this may be a bit disappointing. If you’ve never seen it, go! A dark strange story.
See it if You are ok with dark Sondheim shows. Saw without Grobin and with understudy. Grobin is the only way to go! Can’t wait to see Tveit and Foate
Don't see it if I’m almost afraid to go back and see it again because I don’t want to disturb the other patrons bysinging every single word to the songs lol
See it if you love sweeney todd! sutton foster, aaron tveit, joe locke and the rest of the cast are spectacular! a broadway show not to be missed.
Don't see it if if long musicals about death and revenge are not your thing.
See it if fantastic dark musical
Don't see it if Intense
See it if What there is not to like? Great singing, great performances, great staging...
Don't see it if you don't like horror stories, and love happy endings...
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!
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
Critic Reviews (29)
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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“Subtitled ‘The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,’ the show motors on Sweeney’s monstrous dimensions. Absent that, or even a faint whiff of borderline madness from what he’s been dealt, the production comes off as a bit too tame. Gorgeous music threads throughout this grisly thriller.”
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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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“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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"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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“...an indictment of human brutality and a classic Sondheim declaration that to love is to live. All of that wrapped up in a Broadway horror story of murder most tasty. It will be a tough ticket, but the demon barber had it rougher.”
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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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