Amongst the vast majority of musical theatre devotees, there is little debate that Stephen Sondheim is the greatest writer that the artform has ever known. So, as I sat watching TheatreWorks Florida's soaring Opening Night performance of his darkest masterpiece, SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, I found my mind consistently going over his three principles of lyric writing 1 'Content dictates form.' 2 'Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PM on September 18, 2014