Stephen Sondheim's 1979 show Sweeney Todd was born on Broadway in 1979; but it is these days equally at home in an opera house as it is in a theatre. I've previously quoted Stephen Sondheim's response to whether it is a musical or an opera being that if it's done in an opera house it's an opera and if it's done in a theatre it's a musical. (He also went on to amplify that with opera audiences generally what matters i…
SOURCE: The Stage at 01:39AM on July 27, 2011