Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway 2005) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if Having seen every NYC production of Sweeney since its original opening, this was by far the best. It was Sondheim's favorite, too.
Don't see it if You don't like Sondheim (impossible to imagine), suspense or counterpoint.
See it if you want to see one of Stephen Sondheim's best plays.
Don't see it if you don't like gore and blood. Read more
See it if you want to see a Bdway classic in an up close, brilliant, clever, dressed-down production that you will never forget. Fantastic cast.
Don't see it if you don't like Sondheim and can't get over it. Miss it at your peril! Read more
See it if you want to hear Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece. It is a horror story but also has wonderful moments of great humor.
Don't see it if you can't deal with unusual music... or people being murdered and baked into meat pies.
See it if Brilliant. A Sondheim production at its best. Do not miss it!
Don't see it if Dont like grand guignol, blood, intimate production or Sondheim
See it if you Stephen Sondheim musicals, if you enjoy radically rethought and revelatory productions of classics, if you love epic performances.
Don't see it if you hate musicals or Sondheim musicals, you are easily confused by non-literal staging or hate John Doyle's approach of actors playing music Read more
See it if You want to see a brilliantly reimagined version of a musical theater staple; you can go back in time to when this was on!
Don't see it if You prefer a full-scale production over an avant-garde simplified one; you don't like meat in your pies.
See it if You love Stephen Sondheim
Don't see it if You are easily upset