With this year’s TonyAwards less than a week away, Annaleigh Ashford, who is nominated for best leading actress in a musical, sat with Vogue to discuss how she's preparing for the big event.
Annaleigh Ashford can’t remember a time when she didn’t know who Stephen Sondheim was. One of the first songs she sang as a girl growing up in Denver, Colorado, was “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from the musical—wrote the lyrics to Jule Styne’s music. “I remember knowing as a little person that the lyrics to that song were very special. They told stories that transcended the music,” Ashford tells me on a recent phone call.
’s original Broadway production, which premiered in 1979, “Angela created such an incredible roadmap—not just for me on the page, but also physically and spiritually,” Ashford says. “There is something that is undeniably her.” Mrs. Lovett is running a down-and-out pie shop—think shepherd’s, not apple—when Sweeney Todd returns to town from prison to exact revenge on the judge who put him there.
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