Fake blood, real entertainment in ‘Sweeney Todd’

PHOTO by ALYSSA BRENNAN
For those who’ve never seen Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street—and missed Johnny Depp’s turn as said demon barber in Tim Burton’s sensational film version (as I did)—know this: as musicals go, this ain’t South Pacific. Or West Side Story. Or any such affair [...]

‘Sweeney Todd’ a disappointment to die-hard fans

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a great, big, huge, fucking faggot.
If I were less of a fag, I wouldn’t have the original 1979 Broadway cast recording of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd on my iPod. If I were less of a fag, I wouldn’t have watched the 1982 Emmy [...]