![]() The charismatic young actor achingly conveys the boy's growing suspicions about Sweeney, and his tender "Not While I'm Around" is an emotional highlight. Gaten Matarazzo ("Stranger Things") is a revelation as Tobias, a street urchin whom Lovett takes under her wing. 'Funny Girl': Broadway revival with Lea Michele sets its closing date His introspective take on the character is at times frustratingly aloof, lacking the simmering anger and deep well of sadness that Michael Cerveris so hauntingly played in the 2005 revival.īut his lush baritone is, unsurprisingly, a glorious match for Sondheim ballads "My Friends" and "Pretty Women." And when he does unleash Sweeney's monstrous side in "Epiphany" and the Act 2 climax, Groban is downright terrifying to behold. Groban, a chart-topping classical singer, returns to Broadway after his Tony-nominated performance in 2016's "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812." Scruffy and sullen, he acquits himself admirably as the embittered Sweeney, whose wife was raped and daughter (Maria Bilbao) was seized by Turpin. Natasha Katz's lighting paints striking, crimson silhouettes, while the rousing 26-person orchestra (sizable by Broadway standards) gives Stephen Sondheim's unforgettable score the richness it deserves. The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an enormous, multitiered factory crane that lurches over the cast and audience throughout the show: air-dropping Sweeney's death-dealing barber chair, and at one point, doubling as an insane asylum. Like the 1979 Broadway original, which starred Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou, Kail's production is jaw-dropping in its scale. 'Shattered': Nicholas Lloyd Webber, composer, son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, dies at 43 Lovett ( Annaleigh Ashford), who pushes pies below his barbershop and helps dispense of Sweeney's victims in gruesome and unsavory fashion. ![]() ![]() Set in 19th-century London, the musical thriller follows a bloodthirsty barber ( Josh Groban) as he returns home with a new moniker to seek revenge on the nefarious Judge Turpin (Jamie Jackson), who wrongfully imprisoned him for 15 years. "Sweeney," which opened Sunday at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, is directed by Thomas Kail ("Hamilton" and "In the Heights"). After three stripped-down revivals – most recently off-Broadway in 2017, set in an immersive pie shop – "Sweeney Todd" swings his razor once again in a sumptuous and thrilling production that has quickly become Broadway's hottest new ticket. ![]()
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