Still, the virgin audiences of young people who have never seen the show don’t seem to notice or care if they’re witnessing a misguided version of a genuine work of art. The ugly, aimless, cluttered and incoherent new production at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, disastrously directed by the overrated Thomas Kail ( Hamilton ), is not one of them. I’m aging myself, but I’m proud to admit I was there on opening night in 1979 and I’ve cheered many great performances since then.
Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece about the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street” has just opened again on Broadway, 44 years after it was first unveiled in the historic extravaganza directed by Harold Prince and starring Angela Lansbury in what I consider the greatest performance of her illustrious career.
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