Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Harvard men's hockey team knows it lost Allen Bourbeau and Lane MacDonald--last year's two top scorers--to the Olympic team this year. The skeptics don't have to remind them...
...icemen know that they lost nine other members of last year's record-breaking 28-6 season, including Tim Barakett and Dickie McEvoy, to graduation and the pro ranks. Don't remind them...
Three weeks into this season, however, the Crimson finds itself in the same position it was in last year: sitting on top of the ECAC standings with a sparkling 5-0 mark. The icemen have to remind the skeptics about this...
There are other allusions to Shakespeare. Besides the glib Marc Antony, Ui is also supposed to remind us, we are told at the beginning, of Richard III. Moreover, the entire play is written in blank verse, with rhymed couplets at the end of each scene...