Christmas 1836: A Sweeney Todd Story
Five years after he is taken, what is Christmas like for Benjamin Barker and his loved ones? He’d long ago given up fighting. Solitary confinement was its own hellhole. It taught him his lesson, and…
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Day of Wrath: Sweeney Todd and the Search for Salvation
I have some Catholic reflections on the haunting use of the traditional Latin requiem chant Dies Irae in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", the 1979 musical by Stephen Sondheim, which was turned…