We caught up with former Sweeney Todds as the show is revived on Broadway. All four stars agree: It's exhausting playing a murderous sociopath, while dealing with stage blood, and singing complex music.
Matthew Murphy and Evan ZimmermanAnnaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban in the 2023 Broadway production ofis back on Broadway.
Four of them came to NPR's New York bureau for a wide-ranging conversation: pop singer Josh Groban, who's only recently taken on the part; Michael Cerveris, who fronted the revival in 2005, playing guitar, while Patti LuPone played the tuba; Norm Lewis, who's played the role three times, most recently off-Broadway in an immersive production set in a pie shop, and Len Cariou, the original Sweeney.
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