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Posted: 1/19/05 at 2:54pm
From Broadway.com:
"Will the Demon Barber of Fleet Street sing again on the Great White Way? Broadway.com has learned that the Roundabout Theatre Company is in talks to bring the acclaimed London production of Sweeney Todd, currently running at the New Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, to New York.
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Directed and designed by John Doyle, this production of Sweeney Todd began performances at the New Ambassadors Theatre on October 13, after a national tour and a run at the Whitehall Theatre. Matt Wolf of Variety said of the production: "The first thing to be said about director-designer John Doyle's simply thrilling new West End production--the venture began earlier this year at the tiny Watermill Theater in Newbury, west of London--is that it sounds, looks, indeed plays like no Sweeney you have ever seen before. It isn't just the scaled-down nature of the staging that's worthy of note: comparable Teeny Todds have been done before, on Broadway and elsewhere. But as socked across the footlights by a uniformly dazzling nine-person cast, all of whom pretty much play at least one instrument if not more, this Sweeney seems, to paraphrase the famous Sondheim lyric, 'to hear music that nobody's heard,' in the process turning a potentially over-familiar piece--at least in Britain--into something entirely fresh."
The show, headlined by Paul Hegarty as Sweeney Todd and Karen Mann as Mrs. Lovett, ends its run at the New Ambassadors on February 5. There is no word on whether any of the production's current cast members would make the trip to Broadway."
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=505370
"Will the Demon Barber of Fleet Street sing again on the Great White Way? Broadway.com has learned that the Roundabout Theatre Company is in talks to bring the acclaimed London production of Sweeney Todd, currently running at the New Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, to New York.
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Directed and designed by John Doyle, this production of Sweeney Todd began performances at the New Ambassadors Theatre on October 13, after a national tour and a run at the Whitehall Theatre. Matt Wolf of Variety said of the production: "The first thing to be said about director-designer John Doyle's simply thrilling new West End production--the venture began earlier this year at the tiny Watermill Theater in Newbury, west of London--is that it sounds, looks, indeed plays like no Sweeney you have ever seen before. It isn't just the scaled-down nature of the staging that's worthy of note: comparable Teeny Todds have been done before, on Broadway and elsewhere. But as socked across the footlights by a uniformly dazzling nine-person cast, all of whom pretty much play at least one instrument if not more, this Sweeney seems, to paraphrase the famous Sondheim lyric, 'to hear music that nobody's heard,' in the process turning a potentially over-familiar piece--at least in Britain--into something entirely fresh."
The show, headlined by Paul Hegarty as Sweeney Todd and Karen Mann as Mrs. Lovett, ends its run at the New Ambassadors on February 5. There is no word on whether any of the production's current cast members would make the trip to Broadway."
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=505370
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