The new orchestrations necessitated by the staging, sharpen the score to a fine point. Harold Prince's original production benefitted from the looming and dense sound. This one gasps, bursts, and sings with such pointed intensity that you're pulled even deeper into the recesses of the murderous barber's mind. "It stings a little" to borrow a phrase from the score, and it keeps stinging until its final glorious moment. Buy this recording NOW.

Read more about the production on the official website Sweeney Todd on Broadway

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Glimpses of Objete. Get your tickets Now!

Come see The Cosmic Bicycle Theatre's production of Objete. It got great reviews in Montreal. It is also the penultimate production in our theater before the massive renovation. Get tickets early at www.SmartTix.com. More info at http://bearcreeknyc.com/Objete.htm.

Brokeback Mountain

I highly recommend this movie, for nothing else than Heath Ledger's remarkable performance. The arc of the story rests entirely on his journey. There is a subtleness to his acting that you might not have expected. I only had one problem with the movie *****SPOILER ALERT***** I found the dead sheep predictable and very unnecessary. As Ennis was riding back up the mountain, I kept begging the movie not to do the obvious thing and show us the result of his sin. And there it was...the punishment for crossing the line, the dead sheep. My problem with this is that it's too Greek tragedy. The story was not being told in that fashion and it was too bold and too obvious a choice. I was discussing this with someone on Sunday and he said that it was true to the book. Not having read it, I couldn't argue (although books and movies don't have to have anything to do with one another.) So, I read the book. WRONG!!!! No dead sheep. Ang Lee, or Larry McMurtry, put it in there. The only mention of a dead sheep in Proulx' story is a suspicion by Ennis that the coyote with balls big as apples musta got some lambs before he shot it. Too Greek to put it in. Still, go see the movie.

Get your tickets now for Confessions of a Mormon Boy

I knew Steven Fales very briefly at Boston Conservatory. He left after freshman year to go on his missionary duty for LDS.
I got back in touch with him by accident when his solo show Confessions of a Mormon Boy started touring the country. I wrote him and he's the same nice guy I knew way back when.
Tickets are available through the Soho Playhouse, for an upcoming NY run. The show is directed by Jack Hofsiss, who directed the original B'way production of The Elephant Man and the television version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Jessica Lange.
Do your best to see this remarkable performer baring his soul and finding his way through an adventurous life.