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Into the Woods (1987). Stephen Sondheim's best musical was gorgeous to look at, haunting to hear and thought provoking to remember. A fractured fairy tale that brought into the same forest Cinderella, Rapunzel and the like, it asked what comes after happily-ever-after, pondering what it means to grow...
SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a sympathetic look at a murderous barber and the woman who recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a shrewdly staged chamber version...
...first time around, Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a deranged barber who slits customers' throats and a pragmatic landlady who bakes the victims into meat pies, was a Victorian penny dreadful by way of Brecht. Everything imitated him: Hugh Wheeler's book, Stephen Sondheim's score, Harold Prince's staging and even the set, which resembled an iron foundry; it hissed and clanged of the dehumanization of the Industrial Revolution. Audiences in 1979 flinched at the spewing blood and spoken bile: it seemed there had never been so cynical a musical...
SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a sympathetic look at a murderous barber and at the woman who recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a shrewdly staged and highly tuneful chamber version...
INTO THE WOODS. Although Stephen Sondheim's richest, deepest Broadway show is ending its run, the work thrives in a fine national touring version...