Porchlight Music Theatre's intimate Sweeney Todd adds pathos to the horror in Sondheim's masterpiece.
by Albert Williams"For what's the sound of the world out there / Those crunching noises pervading the air?" sings the title character of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1979 musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in the show's first-act finale. He then answers his own question with relish: "It's man devouring man, my dear / And who are we to deny it in here?"…[ Read more ]