Review: In a funny, sexier “Sweeney Todd,” Josh Groban proves he can carry a Sondheim musical on his own terms
, of “Hamilton” fame, shapes a mellifluously strapping revival of the 1979 musical, which marked its official Broadway opening Sunday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, to the distinct contours of his stars’ personalities.
Groban’s celebrated baritone sounds lustrous under some technically challenging circumstances : His renditions of “No Place Like London,” “Pretty Women,” with Jamie Jackson’s Judge Turpin, and especially “Epiphany” are versions you’ll want to deposit in your aural memory bank. Other rewardingly memorable voices belong to Maria Bilbao as Sweeney’s daughter, Johanna, Ruthie Ann Miles as the pitiable Beggar Woman and John Rapson as the scabrous Beadle Bamford.
particularly in a priceless duet such as “A Little Priest,” in which Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney dream up their menu of human happy meals, job title by job title.Some of Sondheim’s best jokes are swallowed up in the imbalance between singers and orchestra, a situation exacerbated by a perhaps unanticipated and more felicitous problem: the audiences’ frequent boisterous response.
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