Profile for Judge Turpin

In some bizarre way, I saw Gypsy with Bernadette Peters two nights in a row and thus I know this was not a planned mistake: So on the second night I saw it, during the song "Small World" Bernadette sang the lyrics: "Funny, you're a stranger who's come here, come from another town. Funny, I'm a stranger myself here. Small world, isn't it?" And then she sat down on a trunk and when she did her hat fell off but the orchestra kept playing and she was able to work the moment in to the show by poin...

I was in London two weeks ago and got the chance to see this production of Sweeney Todd. It was absolutely mindblowing. I have seen both the concert with Patti LuPone and George Hearn and the original version with Angela Lansbury on PBS and this is nothing like those. The cast was made up of only 12 people and they all played instruments and thus were the orchestra as well as being the cast. Each instrument that they played was very specific; for example, Johanna and Anthony played the cello....