Nach dem großen Komet (The Great Comet) kehrt Josh Groban zurück an den Broadway. Mit einer ganz großen Rolle. Nämlich dem Sweeney Todd. Dem Barbier. Dem teuflischen aus der Fleet Street. In der Verfilmung war es Johnny Depp, im Musical am Broadway ist es Josh Groban. Ich drück alle Daumen und freue mich für Josh für diese Rolle. Im Februar/März geht es los.
The demon barber of Fleet Street is returning to Broadway.
“Sweeney Todd,” the deliriously gruesome Stephen Sondheim-scored musical about a wronged man bent on revenge, will get a big-cast, big-orchestra, big-budget revival next spring starring Josh Groban in the title role.
Groban, a pop star renowned for the timbre of his voice, will star in the title role opposite Annaleigh Ashford, a Tony-winning actor with a gift for comedy, who takes on the part of Todd’s co-conspirator, a pie shop owner named Mrs. Lovett.
The “Sweeney Todd” revival, quietly under discussion for three years and encouraged by Sondheim, who died in November, has been one of the worst-kept secrets on Broadway — speculated about for months on chat boards, and detailed last month in the email newsletter Broadway Journal.
On Tuesday, the production made it official: The revival will begin previews Feb. 26 and open March 26 at the 1,500-seat Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
“This show is full of such great scary fun,” Groban said in an interview. “It is Grand Guignol, it is penny dreadful.”