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- Thu Oct 14 2004
... Sweeney Todd Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930) has written over twenty shows in the course of his career each one unique in its own way, but Sweeney Todd was his first to be considered an opera. With 80% music and only 20% spoken words Sondheim challenged the world of opera with the unconventional Sweeney Todd (Woolf, www.musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2000/july00/sweeney.htm). The irony of the success of Sweeney Todd is the fact that Sondheim himself claimed that he hated opera. Sweeney Todd opened on March 1, 1979 at the Uris Theater in New York and was directed by Harold Prince. Len Cariou and Angela Lansburry starred as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. Despite fairly a short run of only 577 performances, Sweeney Todd won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical (www.sjsondheim.com/SweeneyTodd.htm). Sweeney Todd is adapted from a play by Christopher Bond who's play is based on the English myth of The Demon Barber of
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