Critical Reaction

Critical Reaction

"A staggering theater spectacle and more fun than a graveyard on the night of the annual skeleton's ball.... So joy to the world, dear children! Sweeney Todd is here to enrich your nightmares."
– New York Daily News

"Must be seen by anyone who cares about the gifts and risks of Broadway at its best."
– Newsweek

"There is more artistic energy, creative personality and plain excitement than in a dozen average musicals. ...Mr. Sondheim has composed an endlessly inventive, highly expressive score that works indivisibly from his brilliant and abrasive lyrics."
– The New York Times

"Sweeney Todd is above all cracking high class entertainment with a pulsating score and a fascinatingly lurid cast of characters that is at times little more than a singing freak show though it is none the worse for that."
– The Independent