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...tricky score rather than struggle against it, the results were viscerally thrilling. This show is an embarrassment of riches. It’s just that some of those gems need serious polishing.Above all, it’s the two brilliantly realized central roles (partners in crime Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett) that make this musical melodrama go. Arlo D. Hill ’09 is fully at home in the title role. Handsome, brooding, and gaunt, his Sweeney strikes a perfect balance between seething rage and frighteningly easy charm. The audience is enchanted and seduced right up until the moment...
...recent retellings of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) is returning to the black comedy’s bloody roots. The dark musical about the vengeful Todd and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, who sells Todd’s murder victims off as meat pies to poor Londoners, will run on the Loeb Mainstage through this Saturday. A number of revivals have drastically changed the feel of “Todd,” including Tim Burton’s blood-soaked...
...Wheeler, suggested I contact her friend Maurizio Tognetti, who lives in the North End: “If you would like me to put you in touch him…maybe he could give you some useful advice and some further inspiration.”I met Mr. and Mrs. Tognetti in their apartment on Tileston Street, a small offshoot of Hanover. The first thing I learned about Mr. Tognetti was that he was “very critical of the North End. I live here and I hate it.” The second thing I learned was that...
...always knew there would only be one. That was why we were having the election. If things are truly to remain unresolved until the Democratic convention in August, the whole script needs a rewrite. If we’ve learned anything from films like “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” it’s that audiences will watch any male-female relationship unfold as long as it features an attractive, charismatic couple, once turned against itself with explosions-qua-flirtation, uniting in the end to defeat...
...home during the storm. The lower Ninth Ward was a ghost town—no inhabitants, no volunteers, no government officials.“You see stuff that’s being repaired; you see stuff that’s falling down right next to it!” Mrs. Wright told us. “It’s a matter of the haves and have-nots. If you don’t have, you have to wait even more because you’re not in control—you have to wait for someone else to come...