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Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
An Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts
Yuri Rasovsky4.2
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About
According to legend, Sweeney Todd had his barber shop in London, where he robbed and murdered more than 150 customers. He disposed of their remains at a bakery where they supplied the stuffing for meat pies, the favorite lunch of the locals. The man you lunched with yesterday could be your lunch today!
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"The gruesome plot is played tongue in cheek and laced with comic and satiric elements. Performances are strong throughout. W. Morgan Sheppard is especially delectable as Todd…Robertson Dean does a fine turn with a seldom-attempted rural accent. Sound effects and music are used frequently and well, and the drama is punctuated with amusing and well-done songs, mostly traditional. This is a spirited
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"Fond as I am of all things Stephen Sondheim, I just couldn't bring myself to see the Johnny Depp film version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. All that spurting blood! A better, lighter and more comic version (if subject matter involving a throat-slitting barber and an accomplice who bakes his victims into pies can be considered comic) is Yuri Rasovsky's Sweeney Todd and the Str
Herald Tribune (Sarasota, Florida)