If the demon barber of Fleet Street bought an Aphex Twin album, you'd maybe get something approaching the Landless Theater Company's Sweeney Todd - Prog Metal Version, premiering at the Undercroft Theater in Washington, D.C. this August.
Surely, Stephen Sondheim should be irritated, right? No. The playwright has given the production his blessing--or his permission, to get technical.
At this point, the details remain a bit murky. Andrew Baughman, the company's producing artistic director said in an email that the creative team had yet to be determined. That team, though, should resemble the one behind Richard Campbell's Frankenstein.
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