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Sweeney Todd is, as the many reprises of the opening number tirelessly remind us, the infamous nineteenth century "demon barber of Fleet Street." Back in London after serving 15 years of a life sentence in Australia for a crime he did not commit, Sweeney (Jonathan Tolins) seeks revenge on corrupt Judge Turpin (Adam Wolman), who framed him in order to steal away Sweeney's wife. He starts up his barbershop again above the pie shop of his old landlady, Mrs. Lovett (Rhonda Edwards), who tells him that shortly after his exile, Sweeney's wife poisoned herself, and his infant daughter...
...Alex who will take Beth up on her dare, swiping Ellen from school for an almost innocuous afternoon kidnaping. The outraged husband tries taking matters into his own hands by strangling Alex back in her kitchen -- be a movie man, Dan -- but he can't finish the job. This demon will have to be destroyed by the only pure spirit left...
...evil man. But this time Dan is the vulnerable one -- in De Palma's provocative term, a "feminized male" -- partly because of his position as head of the family. And his adversary is scarily strong, a masculinized female even in name -- Alex. She is the stalker, the demon, the sexual adventurer...
...wear a tie, demon." I grabbed the sign...
...Lesbian Imagination" and "The Demon-Lover" are among the Harvard doctoral dissertations selected to be published for the first time this year by Garland Publishing, a Manhattan-based firm specializing in the publication of unusual texts...