Go see Sweeney Todd at the ACT. If you live in the Bay Area, or have plans to visit, you must go. Buy your tickets now please. Spoilers ahead:
Sweeney Todd, of course, is a musical about a serial killer. In this production, the cast doubles as the orchestra. Do you hear me? They found people who could act and sing and play instruments.
You will come away feeling gravely untalented, but you will also want to kiss John Doyle on the mouth. (Is that cool, Mr. Doyle? Do you mind if San Francisco kisses you on the mouth? We like you as more than a friend.)
Anyway, see it! You must see it.
Mighty Girl 
…of course, is a musical about a serial killer. I just love how you said that like so naturally like it’s a lovely evening or we’ve run out of tissue. Musicals and serial killers. I love it.
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Saw this production in NYC. It’s astoundingly good and I’m not even that much of a musical-theatre weenie anymore. Highly recommended.
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Mirvish Productions, in Toronto, where I work, will be bringing this production to town in November and I CANNOT WAIT. It’s things like this that make me remember why I got into the business in the first place. Go Sondheim!
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That production flipped my wig! Go, go, go!!!
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Once I had dinner at the house of a woman who is married to a serial killer. IN REAL LIFE. You can read about it here, if you want: http://spanielranch.blogspot.com/search/label/capital%20murder
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I loathe musicals. Loathe. I mean, can’t the actors just say a couple of lines and have a conversation without having to break into song every two minutes?
This, however, rocked.
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Watching reality tv usually makes me feel gravely untalented, so the sensation isn’t exactly unfamiliar and one I would be more than happy to endure to see a musical about a serial killer.
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Dude. Sweeney Todd is such a kickass show anyways, but the cast is the orchestra too? I don’t know if I could handle it.
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The recent revival of Company here in NYC starring Raul Esparza (look him up; kiss him on the mouth), though plagued with a completely mediocre supporting cast, did the same orchestra-cum-actors trick. Quite neat!
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I’m in, however, don’t know when as I live in a suburb near Buffalo and it may not come here for five years…
Dorothy from grammology
call your grandma
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Ahh, Judy Kaye. The woman can do no wrong.
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Dorothy! From Buffalo! Come to Toronto! We’re SO close!
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I know that Sweeney Todd is just a tale (“attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!”), but, in London, I work in a building which is supposed to have been the site of Mrs Lovett’s pie shop.
Fantastic musical. I wish I was there to see it.
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