Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, the stars of the new “Sweeney Todd,” share their Sondheim stories over savory pies.
“They all deserve to die,” Sweeney Todd cries out, razor held high. “Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I.” The M.O. follows: he’ll cut the throats of his customers while he’s shaving them. Mrs. Lovett knows that the quickest way to love is a shared interest: Why not donate the corpses to her meat-pie shop? Jig of joy.
Groban said that he was happy to be onstage without a fat suit, which he’d worn in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.” “I’m not doing that for this one,” he said. He and “Sweeney Todd” ’s director, Thomas Kail, had begun rehearsing his hardest song, “Epiphany,” and he had a barbering lesson coming up.
Talk turned to their rehearsal schedule, which was intense—previews begin February 26th—and had changed, Ashford explained, after she opted not to go on a publicity trip to London for Hulu’s “Welcome to Chippendales.”
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