Stephen Sondheim's serial-killing barber may be an unsavoury hero, but the musical skilfully mixes savagery, tragedy and comedy to create a work of art that leaves one in aweThere are musicals one likes and musicals one loves. In the latter group I'd include a totally forgotten Theatre Workshop show from 1959, Make Me An Offer, memorably directed by Joan Littlewood. Or there is Cole Porter's Anything Goes, which has,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AM on March 3, 2014