Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim’s Grand Guignol masterpiece is back in a glorious revival at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford. Here's the executive:
Groban actually took lessons at a barbershop in preparation to play Todd, explaining that he wanted his blade to feel like an extension of his right arm, just as it does for the character. Yet his quasi-pop baritone is so grand and gorgeous that no matter how high he swings his weapon, you’re more likely to get goose bumps than shivers down the spine when he sings.
“I think I speak for everybody in this cast [when I say] we’ve all loved this show since we were very little,” said Groban. “And so, especially after the last couple of years, so many of us feel an enormous swell of gratitude to even be back on a stage at all, let alone in a masterpiece that we all feel like we have such an incredible responsibility to take good care of and to introduce to audiences old and new.
For Ashford herself, the show is a dream long deferred. “Playing Mrs. Lovett has always been on my bucket list,” she shared. “Angela Lansbury [who originated the role on Broadway in 1979] is absolutely one of my idols; she was a true character actress. So it’s a dream come true.”Sign Up Now
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