Dec 20
What contradicts Christmas spirit more than tomorrow’s release of the movie production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd? Unless you count Yoko Ono’s vocal performance on “Happy Christmas (War is Over),” nothing dampens the holiday mirth more than the twisted story of a homicidal barber. Nonetheless, the morbidity of Sweeney Todd has not prevented it from receiving generally positive reviews and multiple Golden Globe nominations. And now it seems that Sondheim’s relationship with film will extend beyond Sweeney Todd: the marital woes of Company and the love dilemmas of Follies may also grace movie theaters someday.
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