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Harvard's Ken Code seemed to slow the B.C. momentum with a goal from the left point, but right wing Bob Sweeney's deflection of a defenseman's shot made it 4-1 with just 9.03 gone...
...Sweeney Todd (The Entertainment Channel). Terry Hughes directed Stephen Sondheim's operatic musical for cable with seamless theater and TV technique. George Hearn was magnificent as Sweeney, the misanthropic cutthroat; Angela Lansbury was delectably deranged as his helpmeet...
...Poles into a little silvery postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra's one architectural asset, natural daylight. Without it, the paintings look embalmed. This accords with the programmatic opinions of one of the gallery's early advisers, the former American museum director James Johnson Sweeney, but it is a grave mistake...
LIKE PRINCE'S adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Evita relies upon an operatic chorus and contains little dialogue, placing a great burden on the voices of its stars. Derin Altay, who replaced Patti LuPone on Broadway, sings vibrantly. Waving her arms, confidently striding across the stage, she demands the audience's attention. She also displays a not-too-subtle wit, fashioning gestures more reminiscent of a Billy Martin-Reggie Jackson ballpark feud than an exchange between a First Lady and a cabinet official. But of course much of Eva's mystique results from such apparent contradictions--the earthiness...
...with most pay-cable theater offerings, Camelot is a safe bet: a hit show that became a hit movie, with a big star treading the boards once more in an upscale TV dinner theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this...