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...spring, a middle-aged man's fancy ponderously turns to thoughts of airline hostesses. This despite the fact that Nick Callan (Len Cariou) is engaged in a less taxing rite of renewal-joining with his wife (Sandy Dennis) and their best friends the Zimmers (Jack Weston and Rita Moreno) and the Burroughses (Alan Alda and Carol Burnett) to open the latter's vacation house for the season...
...bitter, cynical Sweeney Todd, Hearn is more hard-boiled in his determination for revenge than the New York Sweeney, Len Cariou. Though he's missing Cariou's subtle glee, Hearn nonetheless rivets us to Todd's obsessive mission. Failing once to exterminate the dastardly judge, his "Epiphany" is the anguished outcry of a crazed beast in its dying fury. The production's demonicism reaches its zenith in "A Little Priest", when Hearn and Lansbury combine to offer the occupants of society's beehive as ingredients for their delectable pies...
Sweeney Todd. Not for the squeamish, since it is about cutting people's throats, baking the fresh cadavers without delay and serving them up as meat pies. With Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in peak performances, Sweeney Todd is a classic example of the remarkable virtuosity and range of the U.S. musical when it is in the hands of two flamboy ant masters of the stage, Director Harold Prince and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim. It is also the closest Sondheim has come to writing an opera, albeit dark, cynical and morbid...
Sweeney Todd is one giant step for vegetarianism. Sweeney (Len Cariou), "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," slits the throats of stray clients and deposits their bodies with Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who has them ground up and served as meat pies in her pie shoppe. This musical is a black-comedy opera with helpings of ha'penny Brecht. Its underlying theme, and épater le bourgeois tone, is that man exists only to eat or be eaten by his fellows...
...Sweeney, Cariou performs with epic ashen gravity like a scion of the House of Usher summoned forth by Poe. Quite wonderful and totally different is Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a blowsy pragmatist as wickedly succulent as one of her pies. Within a broodingly ominous iron clad set, Harold Prince directs his accomplished forces with the flash, flourish and panache of a Broadway Patton...