#JOSH GROBAN AWAKEN PLUS#
It has been revived twice on Broadway and staged widely elsewhere in 2007 it was adapted into a Hollywood film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.Les Drama League Awards, créés en 1922, récompensent des productions et des spectacles de Broadway et Off-Broadway, en plus de reconnaître des réalisations professionnelles exceptionnelles dans le domaine du théâtre, du théâtre musical et de la mise en scène. The original production of “Sweeney Todd” opened on Broadway in 1979 and won eight Tony Awards, including one for best musical. Sondheim died just three days before the revival’s first workshop began he had been planning to attend a read-through on the workshop’s final day. Sondheim and Groban had developed a friendly relationship in the years before the composer’s death - Groban periodically performed Sondheim’s songs in concert, and Sondheim reached out when “The Great Comet” began its run. A new production of “ Into the Woods” has been among the best-selling shows on Broadway this summer, and an upcoming Off Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” with a cast led by Daniel Radcliffe, is likely to be a tough ticket, given that the New York Theater Workshop, where it is being staged, has only 199 seats. The revival of “Sweeney Todd,” which has a book by Hugh Wheeler, comes at a time of intensified interest in Sondheim’s work. Ashford has a longer Broadway track record she has appeared in seven Broadway shows, winning a Tony in 2015 for “ You Can’t Take It With You” after scoring her first nomination in 2013 for “Kinky Boots.” This will be Groban’s second star turn on Broadway - in 2016 he led the cast of “ Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812,” winning strong reviews and a Tony nomination. It will be directed by Thomas Kail, the Tony-winning director of “Hamilton,” and produced by Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of “Hamilton.” The choreographer is Steven Hoggett, an acclaimed British movement director, and the set designer, Mimi Lien, is not only a Tony winner but also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. “She does a terrible thing, and she is a monster, but I’ve always seen her as a woman who is trying to find love and trying to be loved.”
“This role is one of the finest ladies of the American musical theater canon,” she said. “We all have these roles that we think to ourselves, ‘If this were ever to happen, I would give it everything that I’ve got,’ and this is certainly one of those roles for me.” “I was not ever a song-and-dance man, so for me to have roles that were cerebral and were gritty and interesting - and baritone - these were roles I felt I could really sink my teeth into,” he said. Groban, who has long loved the musical’s score - he named his dog Sweeney - said he believed the role fit his strengths. “There is obviously a plot here that is absurd and monstrous,” he added, “but then there is also an incredible back story to this character that makes the role even more terrifying, because for all intents and purposes this was a civilized, good man that was driven to this.” Rising Stars : These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.Musical Revivals: Why do the worst characters in musicals get the best tunes? In upcoming revivals, world leaders both real and mythical get an image makeover they may not deserve, our critic writes.Life in Photos: Larry Sultan’s photography, now starring in the play “Pictures From Home” and a gallery show, raise issues of who controls a family’s image.
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