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...schools' most-popular list (Little Shop of Horrors was actually No. 1 for 2007), a growing number of high schools are turning to more adventurous fare for their theatrical rite of spring: big, adult epics like Les Miz; irreverent satires like Urinetown; dark musicals like Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "There's a sense of we want to do something new and edgy," says Jeff Knoedler of Newton South High School outside Boston. "There's only so many times you can trot out Oklahoma! Our kids are doing musicals starting at camp since the fifth grade. They've already been...
...Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”—Stephen Sondheim’s big, bloody masterpiece of a musical—thrashes around on the stage with such furious glee that the idea of critique starts to look silly. Who has time to worry about little slip-ups when there’s so much murder to be done?So I mostly don’t care that Friday’s opening performance on the Loeb Mainstage, directed by Jesse A. Wiener ’08 and Jason M. Lazarcheck...
...Harvard Office for the Arts to “the Harvard undergraduate who combines talent and energy with outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater at Harvard.” Hill, who is currently playing the title character in this semester’s production of “Sweeney Todd,” has previously performed in campus productions of “The Pirates of Penzance” and “The Fantasticks” and is a member of the Krokodiloes, Harvard’s prestigious a cappella group. One senses a certain thoughtfulness behind the measured tones...
Amidst a slew of 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?...
...every aspect of young people's lives. This was invariably justified on the basis that traditional rules suppressed youngsters' natural development or infringed their human rights. Parents who wish to set boundaries on their children's behavior should insist that their parliamentarians, police and judiciary back them up. Thomas Sweeney, Ivanhoe, Victoria...