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A Bloody Good Sweeney Todd Erupts At PB Dramaworks
Homicidal rage against a corrupt world spews into the audience in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Sweeney Todd. But its singular spin is that the serial throat-slitting barber does not start as a vengeance-obsessed fiend. It it adds a dimension of, not forgiveness, but compassion to this cross between gleeful Grand Guignol and merciless condemnation of socio-economic inequity.
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Tagged Brad Pawlak, Brian O'Keefe, Christopher Holloway, Clive Cholerton, Donald Edmund Thomas, Evan Jones, Hannah Richter, Hugh Wheeler, Jennifer Molly Bell, Jim Ballard, Manny Schvartzman, Michael McKenzie, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Paul Louis Lessard, Ruthie Stephens, Shane Tanner, Shelley Keelor, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Terry Hardcastle
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Attend A Slightly Different Sweeney Todd At Dramaworks
Those who love Stephen Sondheim and Sweeney Todd in particular should come with an open mind to this month’s edition at Palm Beach Dramaworks expecting a different spin on the material.
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Tagged Clive Cholerton, Hugh Wheeler, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Shane Tanner, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
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