Opinion | ‘Sweeney Todd’ Review: Josh Groban’s Boyish Demon Barber

Review: Josh Groban stars alongside Annaleigh Ashford in a full-scale Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd,” but he struggles to fully summon the demon barber’s anguished soul

March 26, 2023 9:00 pm ETThe new Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd,” the ghoulish marvel of a musical comedy that may represent the greatest achievement of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, reaches a deliriously mad

peak just when it should, as the bloodlust of the title character, played by the pop phenomenon Josh Groban, unites with the desperate pragmatism of the pie-making Mrs. Lovett, embodied with hilarious zest by Annaleigh Ashford.

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