However, do you happen to know if Keith Jameson is listed as singing all the performances? I worked with Keith many years ago when was still a baritone(!), and his name was Keith Richard (!!! - which he changed for obvious reasons). Great guy. And I also worked with Walter Charles too when he did Judge Turpin at the Kennedy Center two years ago - wow! - two years already! *I would have loved to see him as Sweeney - he covered both Cariou and Hearn at various points during the Broadway run and the tour. And another great guy. -And his stories of the original cast of Sweeney are priceless!
Both Jameson and Charles will be singing all performances and, sadly, Delevan will be singing very few.
When Sweeney was done here in LA (the tour) the set was but a pale shadow of what it was on Broadway, and the grave was gone. The chorus all got in a circle while screeching "Sweeney, Sweeney, Sweeney" and then he was just there. On Broadway, it's one of the great entrances of all time. Before the show, there are two gravediggers digging earth out of a hole on stage, and then, at the end of the number up he comes from that grave. Then, at the end of the show, both he and Mrs. Lovett come up from the grave.
In that case, maybe every production I've seen has been modeled after the tour and not the original production. I assumed that the Lansbury/Hearn video (Which I have seen replicated onstage many times) was almost identical to the original Broadway production, but it seems as though that's not the case.
Did anybody get the chance to see New Repertory Theatre in Boston's production of "Sweeney" last season? Gorgeous, creepy, perfect production.
BK, you are very right that Jenny must read the Kritzer books. Jenny should really get around to ordering them.
