6/19/2023 0 Comments Sweeney todd musical pittsburghThe award-winning “thriller,” probably the darkest musical ever written, tells the morbid tale of a Victorian era barber who returns to London after years of Australian exile, seeking revenge on the corrupt judge who banished him in order to pursue his wife. In Sondheim’s creation of the musical, he used a 1973 play by Christopher Bond as his inspiration, but the title character dates as far back as the 1840s, when Victorian era readers of popular fiction, called “penny dreadfuls,” were introduced to him in a serialized weekly magazine story called “The String of Pearls.” A few dramatic adaptations of the “urban legend” span the 1860s to the 1960s, but Sondheim’s musical spin on the macabre tale is the one which will probably still be performed forty years from now. ![]() Stephen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd has been entertaining audiences for nearly forty years, and last night’s performance of the work by Pittsburgh Festival Opera did much to explain the show’s enduring popularity. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ![]() Home › Our Posts › Reviews › Archived Reviews › Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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