On opening night, the cast and VIP guests (which included Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd, Len Cariou, along with the likes of Christine Baranski, Phylicia Rashad, Sutton Foster, Alan Cumming, and Sadie Sink) were abuzz with excitement. “Sweeney Todd is my best friend’s favorite show, and my best friend is the director of this show,” Lin-Manuel Miranda said of Kail. “I remember we went to a reading of it the week after Steve [Sondheim] passed, which Steve was going to come to. He was so excited about this production, and then he passed away over Thanksgiving. So it’s really special, because all of our grief and joy is all mixed up in this.”
Fisher shared a similar sentiment. “When [Sondheim died], I was working on Dear Evan Hansen a block away from here. I looked at my wife and I just manifested it and said, ‘The next show I do on Broadway, I want it to be a Sondheim piece,’” he recalled. “Little did I know that one year later I’d be originating the first Black Anthony ever on Broadway.”
“I think I speak for everybody in this cast [when I say] we’ve all loved this show since we were very little,” said Groban. “And so, especially after the last couple of years, so many of us feel an enormous swell of gratitude to even be back on a stage at all, let alone in a masterpiece that we all feel like we have such an incredible responsibility to take good care of and to introduce to audiences old and new.”
For all the latest fasion News Click Here
