Daily Jigsaw: Sweeney Todd
A key part of the Memphis theater scene is collaboration and support among its groups.
That can be seen in the action as “Sweeney Todd” opens Friday, June 12, at Playhouse on the Square, a collaboration with Opera Memphis for a production of the darkly comic thriller about a wronged barber in Victorian London whose quest for revenge turns into a spree of murder and cannibalistic meat pies, framed by one of Stephen Sondheim’s most acclaimed scores.
“Sweeney Todd” opened on Broadway in 1979, where it won eight Tony Awards. It is often cited as a landmark achievement of late-20th-century American musical theater, blending opera with horror, satire and musical writing. Critics and scholars regard it as a high point of Sondheim’s career.
Director Whitney Branan says, “You’re going to experience the entire range of what it feels like and what it means to be human in a post-industrial, capitalistic, screwed-up world.”
Read more about Playhouse on the Square’s production of Sweeney Todd here.
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