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  BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘Sweeney Todd’ revival’ is funny, scary and disarmingly moving

  Many Broadway revivals of musicals from decades past insist on revising, reconsidering and imposing. Thomas Kail’s triumphant revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” does none of that. At once funny, scary and disarmingly moving, this must-see production is content to peel back any cobwebs or artifice and let Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Gothic revenge tragedy of a ...

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  ‘Sweeney Todd’ Review: Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford Lead a Soaring but Remote Sondheim Revival on Broadway

  The cannibalist startup in “Sweeney Todd” kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. For Mrs. Lovett, who laments that alley cats were too quick and meager to carve up anyway — well, it’s a living, innit […]

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  2023 Tony Awards slugfest: 15 productions vie for places in Musical races [WATCH]

  In the lead-up to Tony nominations being announced on May 2, Sam Eckmann and I are predicting 10 of the Musical categories, where new breakout shows like “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Some Like it Hot” and revivals of “Sweeney Todd” and “Into the Woods” will compete for the highest honors of the New York theatre community. […]

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  Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical ‘Here We Are’ to Premiere Off-Broadway in Fall

  Stephen Sondheim’s final musical “Here We Are” is hitting the stage in the fall. The legendary musical theater figure, who composed “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Follies,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Company” and countless other Broadway classics, died in 2021 at the age of 91. The musical, formerly known as “Square One,” was in the works […]

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  ‘Sweeney Todd’ With Josh Groban & Annaleigh Ashford Takes $1.5M And Fills Every Available Seat – Broadway Box Office

  The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical filled every […]

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  Josh Groban lifts his razor high in Sweeney Todd revival first look

  Check out Groban as the demon barber of Fleet Street and Annaleigh Ashford as Mrs. Lovett.

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  Welcome to Chippendales review: Slick 70s drama gets pulses racing

  Infused with elements of Boogie Nights, Welcome to Chippendales is a dynamic disco drama.

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  ‘Welcome to Chippendales’ Star Annaleigh Ashford Deconstructs Her Awkward Coke Scene, How Using Femininity Helped Her Character Reclaim Her Power

  “Welcome to Chippendales” details the rise and fall of the male exotic dancing troupe, as told through the tale of creator Somen “Steve” Banerjee. And yet, little is known about Banerjee’s wife, Irene, and her origin story. So, when Annaleigh Ashford signed on to play the loving partner of the immigrant entrepreneur-turned-millionaire criminal on the […]

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  Ruthie Ann Miles Will Return to Broadway Alongside Josh Groban in Revival of Sweeney Todd

  The Tony Award-winning actress was last seen on Broadway in another Stephen Sondheim revival: Sunday in the Park with George, which also starred Annaleigh Ashford

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  ‘Welcome to Chippendales’ Star Annaleigh Ashford Thanks God for Male Strippers

  Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/HuluAnnaleigh Ashford did her first years in New York City better than the rest of us.The actress is now, perhaps, indelibly “New York.” She’s a Broadway star, who made her debut in Wicked as Glinda, won a Tony Award for her performance in You Can’t Take It With You, and, next year, will be baking, let’s say, “special” pies while singing Sondheim in the upcoming revival of Sweeney Todd with Josh Groban. On screen, she’s known for her wo

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