Critical Reaction

"A staggering theater spectacle and more fun than a graveyard on the night of the annual skeleton's ball... So joy to the world, dear children! Sweeney Todd is here to enrich your nightmares." - New York Daily News

"Must be seen by anyone who cares about the gifts and risks of Broadway at its best." - Newsweek

"There is more artistic energy, creative personality and plain excitement than in a dozen average musicals. [& ] Mr. Sondheim has composed an endlessly inventive, highly expressive score that works indivisibly from his brilliant and abrasive lyrics." - The New York Times

"Sweeney Todd is above all cracking high class entertainment with a pulsating score and a fascinatingly lurid cast of characters that is at times little more than a singing freak show though it is none the worse for that." - The Independent