Sweeney Todd National Tour?

[theatrekid3302]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 2:46am

Whatever happened to this??

Tony-Nominated Sweeney Todd Revival Will Tour U.S. in 2025

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 3:32am

They figured this country’s been through enough?

[brdwybound04]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 11:19am

Honestly, this feels just like the recent revival of The Music Man… majorly starry Broadway casts, great box offices, and then the hype fizzles out significantly, and the productions win no Tonys, yet once the contracts are up, show closes, announces tour, tour never comes to fruition, even though neither show had toured the country in over 20 years…

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 12:10pm

brdwybound04 said: "Honestly, this feels just like the recent revival of The Music Man… majorly starry Broadway casts, great box offices, and then the hype fizzles out significantly, and the productions win no Tonys, yet once the contracts are up, show closes, announces tour, tour never comes to fruition, even though neither show had toured the country in over 20 years…"

Music Man launches January 2026. Sweeney last toured the states less than twenty years ago, and the most recent Broadway mounting took home two Tony Awards. Sweeney’s national tour was announced a whole year before closing on Broadway. 

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 12:25pm

brdwybound04 said: "Honestly, this feels just like the recent revival of The Music Man… majorly starry Broadway casts, great box offices, and then the hype fizzles out significantly, and the productions win no Tonys, yet once the contracts are up, show closes, announces tour, tour never comes to fruition, even though neither show had toured the country in over 20 years…"

The Doyle Production toured for over 2 years through 2009...

 

[theatrekid3302]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 4:12pm

I think Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller would be a really good Sweeney and Lovett pairing

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 1/25/25 at 5:12pm

GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Music Man launches January 2026."

MUSIC MAN's upcoming tour is not the Jerry Zaks/Warren Carlyle production.

I assume it will be non-Equity since they're booking one-nighters. (Big League Productions is producing it and Broadway & Beyond is booking it.)

An Equity tour of the Zaks production could have been successful. It's also where some real money could have been made. But since Barry Diller had to begrudgingly pick up the pieces after Rudin's departure, I suspect he was fine with breaking even and calling it quits.

[Pashacar]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 12:32pm

theatrekid3302 said: "I think Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller would be a really good Sweeney and Lovett pairing"

Now that is a pairing I would travel for. Unfortunately probably a bit high-profile for a national tour.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 12:35pm

I was just wondering what Jessie Mueller is doing these days.  Does anyone know what is on her agenda?

[bear88]

Posted: 1/29/25 at 1:50am

I am mildly surprised it didn’t tour. Seems to me like it would have done fine even without stars. But I’m not a producer.

But as no one really loved the Kail production, even if many people (like me) enjoyed seeing the show on a large scale, I have no complaints that it didn’t.